i have just been told it is Pancake Day! Bloody hells bells. I have had a cereal bar today. Today was clinic day where I could take all the supplies I had brought over. We went out further north to a clinic which is manned by one doctor and has 7,000 people. The main issues here are malaria and diarrhoea and mostly children. The clinic was the worst I have seen - no running water anywhere. It was filthy, everything covered in red dust. No steriliser ( they use p...

A bit of a sleepless night last night - thousands of teeny tiny baby cockroaches in my room which needless to say I thought were rather cute. Until I woke up in a cold sweat realising that if there are babies, there must be monster ones somewhere which aren't so cute and have long feelery things waving about. So on about 3.5 hours sleep I went to visit the king - who was on holiday. Our car brakes have broken today so we waited for them to be fixed before movin...