Thursday in Kimilili is market day. From 4am people will start to make there way to the town and by the time we arrived at 9am the market was fully under-way. We were there to buy material to make more puppets. We went to part of the market that sold second hand clothes. Michael and Francis were with us and did the bartering, we did the paying. We felt our presence was distorting the prices somewhat but both he guys did a great job knocking the price down. ...

You can tell you are not in Bedford any more when you find chameleon's in the flower bed.

The plan changed at the last minute on Wednesday. We were in the Landrover and ready to go to the drilling when we found out that the drilling team were collected supplies and their would be nothing to see. We were then unsure what to do then the children's workers arrived at the compound and we arranged to meet and start to make the puppets. We spent the morning making a puppet template and collating the materials we needed so we would be ready to share all...

It seems to rain a lot here. Every afternoon the cloud roles in and there is a torrential thunderstorm. Even as I write I can hear thunder. The rain is very heavy and everything stops while it is happening. This may include the power so I will stop writing.

Its time for a few introductions. Firstly for those who don't know I should introduce Kimilili. It is a good size town in the highlands of western Kenya close to the Ugandan boarder. There is little in the way of civic buildings as these are based in larger towns such as Kitale. The town is not particularly important and it is certainly not on the tourist trail. We had a tour on Tuesday of the town and it was obvious that few white people ever come here so ...