A flurry of parcels arrived this week: stationery of all kinds and the pencil cases, ready for the names of the donors and recipients, children of All Hallows and Sanga Schools respectively to be written on them. 4G did a magnificent job filling them this morning. They formed a one-way production line around their classroom and, under the eye of C Col, the job was done in no time. Brilliant, 4G, and thank you!

MG tells me that the beautiful laminated sheets I mentioned in my last blog were the work of Arabella B, Daisy H and Poppy M, and there are others in the pipeline. So thank you again 6G!

My medical emergency pack arrived yesterday, and a new camera case from Amazon. I don't think I have much more to get, apart from some dollars.

I have been experimenting with my "dongle"...the external modem with sim card by which I can access the internet away from home. I am such a hopeless case with technology that I haven't made it work yet, so there were no emails from Pottern Brake on Monday afternoon! I'm sure I'll be able to get it right when I set up internet access in Nairobi...otherwise it'll be awfully quiet here on the blog!

I have been playing a game of "Desert Island Discs" with myself since Christmas. Well not really Desert Island Discs...more a game of "what shall I put on my ipod?" And it's not really the same at all, anyway, because I'll still be able to download anything in Kenya as easily as I can here. How can listening to music through earphones possibly compare to the joy of hearing it live? I shall miss our weekly hymns (OL in terrific voice at Mass on Tuesday!), and I shall be able to take the memory of some fantastic singing from the Year Five cast of "Carrots", George W, Megan M and Lucy P-M particularly. As for my ipod choices, it'll have to be the Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould, of course) and almost certainly the Mozart A major concerto...a work that has been a favourite since I studied it for A Level back in 1853 (joke).

Packing should be finished tomorrow. When I write again I'll let you see the bags piled and ready to go. Golly gosh, how exciting it all is! And Camilla's on The Archers!! Bliss!