Have had some fun too!

My year of firsts continues and I returned to the lake with Natalie & Oli to experience the Catamaran

This is the little beauty above. We set sail around 10.00 as the wind drops in the afternoon...I was the non sailor aboard. All went well for the first hour or so apart from some minor technical difficulties getting caught on local fishing net lines. But....the wind just dropped and all was still we were far out from shore and going nowhere just merrily bobbing on the surface, no waves, no wind.
This continued for over an hour the result we spent four hours out and was at the mercy of the midday sun!

This rather unattractive picture of me shows the consequence of that. Burnt to a crisp, but this lovely lunch destination with the lake in the background and my first sighting of a wild monkey made it all worthwhile. Interestingly I was not afraid whilst we were stranded but very chilled as I had no control whatsoever. I woke Monday feeling so happy I had escaped sun stroke only to feel very unwell Monday evening.

The days here can be very long if you do not have work to do (there have been a few complications at the Uni)  and we fill our time with some weird projects. Natalie decided to try her hand at quilt making. I cut squares and triangles not all well as I was off my head on Piriton after being eaten by the mozzies. But we are now all the proud owners of our own very bright designer bed covers and pillow cases. Natalie also decided that she should kill her own chicken in order to have the full African experience!

I will spare you the before and after photos and I did not take part in the killing but it was carried out very quickly and cleanly by Frank our help who has killed hundreds of chickens for his family to eat. I did watch the gutting which was fascinating and Frank took all the innards that the whities would not eat as well as the chickens head! We did have a very nice chicken dinner the following day.
We are currently laying a brick patio in the back garden.

Check out the label on this lovely bottle of red shared with Oli...

So highs and lows....  Great parcel yesterday Alta Rica & mini eggs thanks Sharon... super happy Marali and Mairead coming out soon miss you all. Have a great Easter I am off to Zomba for the long weekend. (Not Zumba dancing as dear Mairead thought!!)