Amazing what can happen in a week! Last Monday we came back to the office and met with Karen the Country Director. By Thursday we heard that VSO London wouldn't agree to her proposal. Thursday afternoon and young lady bumped into Ken when he was out walking and asked to see the car! She took it for a drive, offered him the amount we were going to ask for it! She is Australian and so she wanted to ask advice from home and offered us in AU$ exactly the equivalent w...

Morning from this lovely sunny place!!! Shame that we're missing the snow but glad not to be cold!! After various meetings and emails with London they will not agree to let Ken stay as he is seen to be an insurance risk. We had hoped that they would let him stay as a non volunteer but no. We know that if our first Doctor had written the final report it would have been different but he was on holiday until 4 January and we didn't feel we should wait to see him as ...

Here is Ken on our Anniversary! The other two pictures [in the folder 44th Anniversary]are of a lady fishing and then walking along the sea shore on the black sand. News to date is that we had a 5.7 earthquake the centre of which was 10 kms south of Madang!!! It certainly shook the house I can tell you!! Sounded like a washing machine when the towels aren't loaded correctly!!! I ran indoors thinking what have I left working [washing machine is out the back in th...

Thought that you would like to see our garden as it was when when we returned home. It was so beautiful to see everything flowering especially those that I'd not seen in flower before. My watermelon is the size of a a child's ball and my two tomotoes are just going red!! Sad aren't I? The picture above is like a bulb flower and since I rescued it from under the hedge and separated it I have had lots of flowers.

Madang So we're home! Arrived back yesterday at 5pm, to a lovely welcome from staff that were around. Made me tearful. House lovely and clean etc. Ate at the restaurant [of course] and to bed. Today Ken went to do the shopping to find at 7am that the shops had queues a mile long and four deep! Had no idea why but he came home and we had breakfast at the restaurant!! Tried later to shop to discover the same and then found that the market wasn't open. Why? New Ye...