GRANNY Is this the best way of contacting you? Could you email me - mroworth@aol.co.uk - to let me know if it is, or give me an alternative email for you.
Thanks
Great blog Fantastic. Great to hear about your adventures. I spent a week in Ghana in October so sad to have missed you and your guitar playing. Make sure you bring those patched trousers to St M.
Great trip Hi guys, lovely to hear about your latest endeavours! It has helped to keep me awake at the 3am feeding session! Sending love & hugs to you both, enjoy making more amazing memories for the final phase of your trip & we will look forward to seeing you for slightly different adventures in 2014. Lou (&samuel) xxx
Keep safe Well done on your stint at Masanga, each of you building on what went before and others building on the great work you have done.Very impressed with your calmness about Liberia. Never been there but heard a story or two about the chaos and lawlessness. Splendid account of your journey south (how did you survive the culture shock of Dubai's airport!) and am sure Botswana will be a treat. November is now firmly settled in but still many leaves on the trees turning gold/russet. A forecast storm produced much wind for about 6 hours but fortunately not too much damage as it raced across England (unfortunately three or four lives). Looking forwards to your stories of Okovango and Chobe
Doctorary…. where is the snow? Hey you two, how much fun and great experiences can one couple have? Time you returned to St Moritz for a really dull time.
Keep up the good stuff.
Jamie
Great to hear of your continued amazing travels - We are a little jealous! Hope all continues to go as well for the rest of your year. Annie xxxx Much enjoyed reading your blog, and enjoyed your comments about the countries I have visited, Ghana, Angola (where I had my 26th birthday), Namibia and RSA. We look forward to seeing your on your return to Devon ! Hugs, Mike.
the photography... ...is very impressive, particularly the squirrel and eagle owl. And that lion looks like a right pain in the neck. Glad to see you are letting off some steam in S. Africa.
Errrrr Couldn't type any more...comments on last 'comment!!' But just wanted to say think of you both everyday and CAN'T wait for your return, enjoy enjoy enjoy! All my love as always xxxxxxx
Wowzers You two crazy kids! Your blog just sounds so amazing and totally away from the reality of the UK! (Bet Jo enjoyed a bit of window shopping in Dubai!!)
Hi guys, what a wonderfull blog, it's always so hard to know what to write as after reading all the amazing adventures your up to life seems even more mundane than normal! I'm so sorry about you camera, I can imagine just how frustrating that must be. Tim was back last week for his second R&R
Excellent blogging Don't know what the UKIP-voting readers of the Tavistock Times will make of it but sounds like a worthy effort to me! Glad you omitted details of the de-worming. Giles.
It has been wonderful reading your blog and really great all you have done. Have also heard all about it from Annie. A tremendous contribution and experience. Do hope you are enjoying some time on the beach and then the next part of your journey. Will look forward to hearing more.
Congratulations Well, congrats to you both for such a wonderful effort in SL. You have achieved so much - and left the baton with yet more good eggs to carry on the work. Tavistock news, eh? Hope it does raise some more funds for your venture. Enjoy your exploration and we look forward to seeing you in the New Year - we know you HAVE to come to Taunton, so stay a night, catch up with the news, and get your stuff - wedding present here too.
love Dil and Pete x
Wow-wee! xxx Hello you gorgeous pair! And firstly a MASSIVE apology. Jo you sent me an email at work several weeks ago about the physio building renovation and I wrote an email to send out to all our military physio friends plus Col Neaves but saved it in draft so i could think about my forwarding message to make it as punchy yet sensitive as possible. Then I never got round to sending it and your blog has just reminded me. I am SO SORRY. Will send tomorrow. If truth be told I was also having a bit of a war out here about improving the services we provide to our personnel in comparison to those we do in the UK and my re-think on my forwarding message had a bit to do with our Chain of Command and not getting it wrong after rattling some cages. Anyway, that has all settled now and I will get onto your message tomorrow when I get into work. In the meantime I will donate a bit of cash. The sums of money you are asking for are tiny in comparison to what it would cost over here so if all of us put in £20 you would almost be there.
So pleased you are almost on your way again. Nice to have done the work but I am sure it's pretty heart wrenching stuff to come into work in the morning to find children have died over night. Must feel like there is such an incredibly long way to go. But it also sounds as if you have made great gains in your short time there. You are both incredible. Very proud of you both.
It's been a busy old couple of months this end. My sister got married at the weekend there back in Scotland. Incredible wedding and party. Greek Orthodox ceremony. Really sweet and interesting. Lots of repeated singing and chanting of vows and prayers and swinging of smokey, dangly, silver, things wafting gorgeous scents over the congregation. Exchanging of beautifully ornate silver crowns attached to each other by ribbon and exchanging rings repeatedly (on their right hands). Amazing. Laura-Lee looked stunning as did my wee girl who was a flower girl. There were 4 bridesmaids, I was Matron of Honour. So I have been arranging the hen do which was at the end of July (took lots of ideas from yours including Butler in the Buff and the recipe book!) followed by the second and final data collection for MSc (I think thats when your email arrived). I made 120 lavender bag favours with personalised ribbon and purple heather for Laura-Lee's wedding. I also made the decorations for the wedding cake and Laura-Lee's garter. It has been craft tastic and such a pleasure and who would have thought there was so much to learn about cake decs! Anyway, now back to the jobs in hand of APPI exam at the beginning of October and then writing up the MSc. I have just downloaded the SPSS data analysis software onto my laptop. Now all I have to do is work out how it works!!! Mmmmm, could take a wee while! By the looks of it you have already done yours honey which is fantastic news. Where you have found the time for it I don't know but I'm thrilled to bits for you. A huge weight off your mind I bet. I will hopefully join you in Christmas.
Right, Mr Bennett is home this month and his ma is coming to stay tonight for a week so I had better go and do a once round the house.
So much love to you both and I will get onto the donation and sending out the details from your previous email to me. Big kiss to your ma too.
Han xxx
lovely to read you, dearest! it is a real present to read, you, to know all the amazing work you are doing and with joy!!! dont give up and thank you so much for the GREAT inspiration, see you, family.love you, Peter with Loyda and+
good luck with it all - not sure how to contribute (bit stupid about these things on line!) Let me know - even if it's when you return, I'm sure help will continue to be needed! So sorry Anna now has a permanent job (selling Ford cars), or else I'd send her over to fix Rubes!
Lots of love
Dil and Peter
Hi from the boat Hi Jo and David
We (mum, dad, Alice and I) have just read your post whilst sailing across Plymouth sound in the sunshine at 6 knots. 6 mackerel caught so far! Lovely to hear the update. We're all thinking of you and your great works. Best of luck with the onward journey ... Life on the road is pretty good!! Lots of love from all of us, Tom. Xx
I really enjoy reading your blogs, and yes, I do always get to the end, even if I only get to read it a few weeks late!!
They do remind me of our time in Tanzania: the heat, lack of electricity, water and variety of food...and the lovely people too. Make the most of your few remaining weeks and take as many photos of everything that you can!
wow! What an inspiring blog! You guys are doing such incredible work out there - well done!
So, the weather has been lovely in sunny Jersey so we have been making the most of it. We went for a two-hour surf this morning in St Ouen's Bay, which was fantastic. And we have been running and then swimming in the sea at St Brelade's Bay.
Ian has had plenty of work since he set up his business at the start of the year and I have been stuck in a court trial all week of a man accused of a grave and criminal assault. due to finish on monday, thank god.
all wedding plans seem to be going well, but sure it will get stressful closer to the time. you look amazing in your wedding dress Jo.
look after yourselves and keep up the good work!! Love jo and ian xx
Nice to hear from you both What's going to happen to that cat when you leave? Smuggled in a suitcase?! Your reports are fascinating, and to us, as foreign as your return to the UK will be in Jan 14. I know you didn't know re Andy Murray and little Prince George, but cyclist Chris Frome also won the Tour de France, so another British triumph. Cricket hasn't been too bad either!
Tom and Tammy moved into their new home today (Peter's driving back as we speak) - a nice 2 bed flat (rented) on the outskirts of Oxford, in a leafy parkland group of flats, so nice peaceful place. Not cheap though!! Does mean they have a spare room for guests...!
Anna broke a vertebra in her back in a fall (gardening is sooo dangerous!) in June, but she knew she would be okay when she could move all fingers and toes, and brace apart and physio, is okay, thank god. It's a compressed fracture, which I'm sure means an awful lot more to Jo and you than to us! JO will be pleased to hear that she does all her exercises religiously. She has more job interviews, which is good, so fingers crossed.
We're okay too - I had a few wonderful days in Cornwall - in weather that we have not experienced for years - beautiful, unbroken sunshine and warmth - even swam in the sea (cold as it was!) Pete's fine - always fretting about work, but that's just his way.
Hope you don't mind an essay! Take care and keep well.
love
Dil and Pete X
Two newlyweds driving to Sierra Leone in an old Toyota Land cruiser called Rhubarb! Plan to work there for five months before carrying on down to South Africa via a route not yet planned. One long honeymoon! ... full info
jamie
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Well done on the Pottering
Jo & Dave, what a cool experience you have both had for the last year! Now time for something important, its Cresta time.