Hmm. Hottish, instant coffee, trucks.

34º but a lovely breeze and some fluffy clouds. Saw a vapour trail last week. Had a chip omelette for lunch yesterday, a chipnaya, probably.
Walked to the airfield today and the brightest things were as usual the sunflowers. Apart from the sun. The factor 50 goes on like glue and is a bit difficult to distribute. The sun goes straight in to your skin.
School results for form 4 have been very good, 6th in the area.
We will visit a game reserve in a couple of weeks time provided that we have our visas. The gentleman from the Diocese office who was dealing with this has finally admitted that he has retrieved the $1000 fee for the visas from his friend. He may have left it too late and we may have to take a journey out of the country and then back again.
Trying to buy a guitar. Would love to feel a frost. Had chocolate for the first time in two months, yesterday. We ate a whole bar between three of us in five minutes. It had melted on the way back from Dodoma, but revived in the fridge. Yes, we have a fridge.
Fridge isn't much use in a power cut which occurred yesterday for the entire day. Have entertained the need for instant coffee, but am looking forward to finding a source of ground coffee.
The cottage has been fumigated - for termites, 'mcha' in Swahili.

Maggie Hunter takes
a step

Trucking

There are two cottages, mirror images, one for gap year students, one for us chickens that maintain the Mvumi Trust presence here. The toilets have very little ability when it comes to flushing. I will leave the rest to your imagination. They will be mended.
If you know any "gappies" who would like to volunteer, let us know, will you? Or if any of you would like to volunteer. Beans for lunch, food from the garden, enduring warmth and rain that hurts, although we haven't had any for about ten days. And mosquitoes, of course. No hippoes, lions, elephants, giraffes, wildebeest, leopards, cheetahs, impala, eland, sable or even snakes. Lots of small pale dogs and ridiculously skinny cats that yowl.
TV every night is from the collection of DVD's and films that reside here for the relief of such as us.
The third person is Maggie Hunter, who is a volunteer and working with the VI (visually impaired) unit. She comes from Derbyshire.