Sunday 20th June

This is for the blog - it is not much as I am giving lots of in-services now most mornings and some evenings, so run out of time after preparing lessons.

Well, we had the chicken last night for dinner and it was delicious. But nothing is easy, as our cook went up to the Sisters' compound to pick up the lovely white chook, but it had escaped out of the chook house, so she had to catch one of the Sister’s birds to replace it.

Problem was, it was one of the Sister’s favourites - Whoops! She put an onion in the pot with it and a small tin of tomato paste for flavour - not a lot of meat for 6 but enough. How these cooks manage to cook on one little kerosene burner I will never know, a chook, beans, and rice.

The best thing was the bottle of red wine I opened. I bought from Wilson Airport duty free in NBI - it was the only red wine they had so it had to taste good!! It was a South African Drostdy-Hof claret from Stellenbosch. I think it was the Bakelite cups we drank it in that helped with the aroma. Good night was had by all, including P------ who was our special guest.