I'll have a U for...

U think they would know better! This police car came down our dirt road far too fast, fishtailing passed our gate ready to turn over and crash into ASM wall and gate down the road. It had bald front tyres too. Tsk Tsk Tsk.

Not long till I am back in England now, and it is getting hot here. A couple of weeks ago I went to Zambia in that red bakkie. Got there safe, but smoke coming up through the gear stick gaiter, and total brake failure with 190k to go made it an ....interesting drive. It was good to be there, but it was good to be back at hands in a real bed, clean and with real electricity.

I have spent today with Musa, with whom I spent my first weekend when I came out last year. There is no water in their township, and I had to drive nearly an hour with him to find anywhere with running water to put in a container. He has lived on his own since he was a young child, and is still full of hope and optimism. He has a radio alarm, hi fi, PA cab... but no electricity. He is a sharp dressed man!

The other picture is Musa with mum when mum and dad came out, and we went to visit him.

Not long now...

until I am back, although at the moment I am in Zambia. I have been working on one of their bakkis, and it needed a lot of things doing to it! New bearings and suspension parts, plus clutch and general fettling. It was a heavy vehicle to work on. Good job I am a strong lad.

The other picture shows an intruder we had earlier this week. We have had power cuts, following heavy rain. I was up at 05:00 working on the generators to power the fence, freezers, offices and accommodation blocks. The fence alarm elctronics got hit by lightening too, so I was glad I wasn't working on that.

A couple of days later the fence alarm went off, and I expected it to be a fault. And what did we find? One dead cobra! Don't know if he was trying to get in or out!

Thanks for all your continued support, and keep praying for us all please, not least for safe journeys over the next few weeks.