Please excuse me if my pronunciation isn't quite what it should be.... I had to use a website called Babelfish to translate from English to Spanish! It is certainly quite bad for my proverbial 'head' when I find out that people from all over the world (if not the universe!.... 'gogle boogle' for anyone from another planet!) but very nice to hear :-) I hope everyone is ok, and enjoying my inherent babblings!
On Thursday it was too windy to venture up the tree, so I helped Aunty Christine start the Sunday School prize packs. We counted everything and tried to decided what extra stuff (brilliant word that any English Teacher worth their salt would tell you off for using!) we would need to buy. This is the first year that they have been short on things, so we had to buy stationary and some toys, clothes and so on. This is the part I spiel off a great sob story about all the poor little kids round here to whom a simple toy is such a great privilege, giving them so many hours pleasure, while we have so much stuff (!) we do not know what to do with it all.... so come on guys, just give a pound a month! I should do an advert an' all. Seriously though, If you have any old things you cannot abide to look at any more, there is a container that comes out once a year!
On Friday I went with Aunty Christine and Uncle Colin to Gaborone, the capital of this semi-arid land. I wanted to travel in the back as it large and I would have the whole space to myself! I had a couple of mattresses and a blanket, but after awhile I was too busy enjoying myself to sleep! Amongst other delectable sightings I saw a battered up old donkey cart that had the noble wording 'Ambulance' on the side! How fast that would go I am not sure! and it must be an abismally uncomfortable ride. I also saw a couple of guys gutting and cutting up a (dead!) cow right by the side of the road, obviously someone had run it over.... if you can actually run a cow over! I went to a shop to buy a present for my Dad... the main reason I went, so I hope it is good enough for ya Dad! It was a miserable day all day.... but I was sure there were many people who were thankful of the cooler temperature, so I couldn't really pray for sunshine! We were mainly there to get the monthly shop... fancy traveling nearly four hours and back for the monthly shop anyone?! and extra things for the Prize-giving. We went to a few stores before lunch but I had to stay in the car as we had quite a few things of value in it. I read and reread the international express.... So now I know all about the life of Kenneth Greene ( The guy who wrote Wind in the Willows) and 'The impact on Soldiers families as they (the Soldiers) returned from the second World War!
On Monday some guys came round to finish off the tree, instead of faffing around with all that scaffolding, Uncle Colin decided to get two men in who said they could take the tree down by climbing it and using a harness. We cleared all the branches and brush as they brought down the tree, it certainly came down a lot quicker!
On Wednesday Aunty Christine and I walked to the shops to get the food Andy and I would need for our trip, and then I just helped Aunty Christine with bags and so on.
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