OO OO Quick ... it's working.

It appears that for our system is now allowing me to upload photos for a short while. So I am striking while the iron is hot (ouch!) and posting a few pictures from recent days.

Here is Ronaldo, our dog. She is fantastic and a real puppy. Fortunately house trained after about one month. Unfortunately she has taken a liking to shoes and so Heidie's new shoes that she had been waiting for for about 6 months, were ruined just about 3 weeks. However she just looks at you and she is quickly forgiven. Ronaldo is probably the most popular dog in the whole mission. People have stopped coming to see us and started coming to see Ronaldo.

Then there's Heidie. The man who comes and sorts out our garden (and kills the snakes!) had a baby and he named it Heidie. There's two of them - here's hoping junior is not quite so crazy. My Heidie was obviously delighted and here are the two Heidie's together (you can just about make out the baby's hat) along with proud mother and grandmother outside their house in Nanzele.

Incidentally when we visited their house we couldn't help but noticing that the house is completely wallpapered with magazines namely Salvationist, When Saturday Comes and some Danish women's magazine, all of which are delivered us on a regular basis. We had thrown them out and they have been recycled. We were sitting eating our maize looking at a picture of Commissioner Matear. It was all a bit bizarre.

So below are two of my favourite picture on our visit to Cape Town with my family. What a great time and a great place. I really hope that I will be able to go back one day. We loved the place and of course it was made all the better by meeting up with my mum and dad and my little sister. These two pictures are taken on the way to Cape of Good Hope at Boulders Bay. Clare with the Penguin (she's the one at the back....)

And the biggest rock head of them all............

That's my dad's big boulder blending in beautifully.

We have had some hard times at Chikankata but we have some great times too and have been so blessed in so many ways. We have met people we have been so fortunate to meet both around Chikankata and visitors. We have visited places we never dreamed we would see. We have had experiences with people where have felt so privileged and humble. We wouldn't have missed this experience for the world! And whatever happens from here, it's still been worth it!