Today, 25th November, is the international day for Elimination of Violence against Women, "white ribbon day", marked in the UK and many places around the world, including here in St Helena. This evening I joined a group of about 30 to walk from the bay at Jamestown to the Jamestown Community centre, wearing white ribbons and carrying candles. We gathered down at the bay, several women from the Salvation Army, the couple who run the 7th day Adventist church, some ...

I find it hard to believe we have only been here for one week! The UK feels so far away. We have had no access to TV or Internet. While we were in Cape Town we vaguely picked up on the fact that Barack Obama had been re-elected, and that was the last we heard from the outside world! So I am sat typing this offline on Monday evening, in the hope that I will get an hour's Internet connection at a cafe in Jamestown tomorrow morning so I can send this and pick up o...