Halellujah! The power is back! Well for tonight at least. It's been really shocking recently - one day on, one day off, which has kind of made it hard to find time to update the blog. When we do have laptop battery power, we use it for emails, banking tasks (ok, ok, eBay) and preparing for our trip back to the UK in, oh, under three weeks now! In fact is, the power is worse than last year, which is a shame. Plus the mobile network has been dire for the last week or so in Assosa. Normally it would take about 5-10 attempts to get through, with a record of 35, but recently it has been nearly impossible. Instead of the usual 3 or 4 sounds - engaged tone, silence then solid beeeeep, "line is
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