Welcome to this exciting new blog!

JSP and I are sitting in the staffroom at school with the early English spring sunshine burning off the morning frost. Africa is a long way from this lovely scene, but in just a couple of weeks I shall be under that same (warmer) sun writing about the adventures that are beginning for me and for all our community.

I am on a very steep learning curve...not least, learning how to blog! I hope that the pictures that appear once I'm at Sang'a will be rather more interesting to you than the one above. It was the first I could find! VVS (Very, Very Special) will need a new water pump as soon as I get back from Africa. Can you see the leak?

Our first bag for Sang'a is packed (thank you to Lily P and Heloise I), the pencil cases are on order and we've already sold a good number of desks. CC has been working so hard to push this exciting venture, and many others have contributed in all sorts of ways (just this morning PD offered me some insect repellant that she no longer needs. Thank you, Pip!) Julia Parker (mother of Amelia and Lucy) has been so very kind making all sorts of arrangements on my behalf, and Allan volunteered to do the airport run before I even asked.

Over the next fortnight I shall hope to write about the last minute details, and let's hope that by the time I arrive in Kenya I'm a blogger par excellence!

One last thing...from now on I think I'll omit the apostrophe in Sang'a. And Mr Bird, I'll do my very best to proofread my texts!