There are currently 2-3 Panya (mice) running around my room! They are noisey to say they are so small! Just been watching the Kenyan dance show the boys all love sooo much, so much fun, hugely making me miss dance though! So we are now into the Long Rains here... its amazing, the view plus the lightening and really heavy rain is just so much fun to watch. Luckily the heavy rain is at night so far. Hilarity on night one of the rain as the ceiling is not so waterproof! Seriously believe Alice's snap call of 'thats good I wanted the top bunk' is being regretted, at the point she needed an umbrella in bed! But room rearranged and me wandering round being terribly British and placing buckets of various shapes, sizes and volumes under ... read more

Yesterday was my birthday, it will definitely be one to remember. Up at the crack of dawn and off to Lake Nakuru National Park for SAFARI :) So I spent my birthday with Alice, Phil the driver here, Ann- the most lovely woman ever, also works at Sure 24, our guide Miriam as well as flamingos, pelicans, rhino, giraffe, lions, water buffalo, impala's... you know the usual birthday gathering! Also visited a lovely hotel in the game park, for some lunch and swimming. Luckily the last meal I had before upset stomach take 1 was a good one! After a good 8 hours of safari fun, tanning unevenly through the car windows and various hilarious photos as well as some arty animal shots obviously, we came back to Sure 24 to find all the boys sat ... read more

So the things begining with A was the idea that this was with a trip to Africa and Asia with Alice... now I may need to add AMAZING.... Been at Sure 24 for less than a week and seen so much. The boys here are all incredible, so happy and all legends in their own right, form the 4 year old all the way up to the older boys! Personal highlights- getting an impressionable 4 year old saying "Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty..." and then "do it like a dude" to cute for words! Being asked how many kids I have? Being asked if I stayed in Kenya for long enough would all my freckles join up and would I turn black? If I set up an African church in Britain would I be arrested for the ... read more