Can't get used to people wearing quilted jackets and thick shawls. As it's been raining a bit for the last two days the temperature has cooled a bit - but is still fairly warm!

There is a (British) film crew here at the moment filming the work of the hospital, they've bought some biscuits for the team for the last 2 days.  I have never seen a big box of biscuits disappear so quickly - blink and they are gone; they are a real treat for people so there's a lot of excitement.  Me, I'm quite happy with the home made chapattis which are a bit like pancakes- delicious.

Am discovering the tempramental water supply.  Got woken up at 5.30 yesterday to the sound of V loud dripping - the shower had spontanaeously spurred into action.  No amount of knob twiddling would stop it. So I got back into bed, re-tucked in the mossie net and tried to stuff my head under a rather small pillow.  Got back after work last night to discover water gushing out full force - assumed the cleaner must have left it on.  Went to have a shower last night as ususal but could only get water out of the tap and not the shower head -think pressure was too low.  Just finished soaping up and the water decided to dry up.  You can imagine I was in a good mood at this point (no sleep - mosque praying 3.30 am,shower dripping 5.30 am, not so good progress in work...etc etc).  Eventually managed to squeeze enough water out of the various taps to rinse off and then cracked open this weeks pack of Percy Pigs (thank you Menna). aaaahhhhhh :-)

Never realised until this morning how sweet bananas actually are.  Ventured out to do a bit of shopping last night - bit scary to begin with but soon got into the swing of things. Got 2 red onions, a green pepper and the biggest avocado I've ever seen (and it was the smallest one there) for the grand total of 25p - and that was probably at muzungu prices!

Think they have dressed down Fridays here - the people I've seen so far are looking a bit casual in their jeans and t-shirts; I probably look the smartest I've looked all week today  I've acutally tucked in my shirt - oh well.....here's to the weekend...