Home & Away!

Well it has been an eventful week, both home and away.

On the home front, we have hosted a number of new friends, including multiple cockroaches and excitingly some bin-invading maggots, as well as a rat and a number of bats (which fly down the chimney).  Just like his mum, Timmo does not like rats – as you can see, in his courageous attempts to coax the rat from his lair...

In addition, we have had no water for the past week, and when the water did finally flow... here is how it looked:

Fortunately, it cleared up soon enough, as we don’t think Sarah’s parents (who are arriving tonight!) would much like bathing in that.

 

On the work front...

For Sarah, it has been a very sad week at the hospital, with many babies dying of preventable conditions, but when she arrived at work on Monday to discover that three babies had died over the weekend due to anaemia, and a fourth then died in front of her eyes, she called up River of Life Church for help.  Valiantly, they arrived en masse, all willing to donate, but the funniest moment came when Rob (one of the directors) tried to do his part.  A small voice said “Sarah?”.... “Yes?” .... “I’m going to faint!”...  And this was only after the finger prick.  But all credit to him, he then went ahead and blood was dutifully squeezed from him.  Consent has been obtained for publishing this photo of the brave soul!

The last few weeks for Tim have been taken up with organising this year’s football tournament - The Synergy Cup! There have been some eventful matches, but none more so than yesterday’s semi final, which involved a pitch invasion and near riot, after the referee and his assistant disallowed what would have been an equaliser at the end of extra time. The supporters even barred the entrance to the ground, as Tim tried to escort the refs off to safety. Thankfully we managed to get them away before anyone was injured. Even Brian, Tim’s right hand man in Synergy Sports, was nearly beaten by an angry mob of mechanics! It has caused us to hire a police presence for Saturday’s final, which we hope will be an altogether more peaceful affair!