I wanted to say a quick congratulations to Matt and Erin on the birth of their daughter "Sookie Violet Williams" born at 11:37am on Father's day ... read more

" I am afraid we are oversold, you will have to be upgraded" such hardship especially (i want to point this out) as I give up my weekends without complaint to fly for the company I work for, this was a treat. OK it was only to World traveller plus but for me with short legs who cant touch the floor in economy that was marvellous as World traveller plus has foot rests - bliss. I sat next to a gent who was part of the British Heart Foundation Bike Challenge and has spent months painstakingly fundraising and practicing for his 300 mile bike ride across Tanzania - good luck to him - I cant see me doing that on Brad Pitt the Brompton! Three whole hours we were stranded for at heathrow, the plane was ... read more

Goodmorning everyone, 1 hour and 20 minutes ago my plane landed and I am finally home in Twyford getting ready to go to bed and catch up on some sleep. As I arrived at the airport in Accra I was told to go to customs so that they could check my bag, just as they had in Nigeria, my thoughts were "oh god dont open it, I had to sit on it to close it in the first place" although she opened everyone elses bags she took one look at me and said - you are good, you may go. I thanked her, although fully aware of what a good girl I am :) I headed through to the departure gate, they had placed all of the BA passengers in one line and forgotten about us ... read more

Had a great last day of training today before heading back to Accra, we completed an accident investigation, Myself, Gideon and Edmond built a fake Accident where all of the Safety Reps had to investigate it, Gideon was the evil manager which was fum for him as it was completely out of character for him, the guys all enjoyed themselves. At the end of the training the team were all keen to have their photo taken with me - training in Africa is a bit like going to a wedding, holding that permanent smile at cameras for absolutely ages :) Edmond took Gideon and I into the main site to see the pits - they are HUGE I couldnt see any gold but apparently thats normal, the gold needs to be processed before it comes out ... read more

Hi all yesterday Gideon took me to the cultural centre and to the Kings Palace museum both of which were very interesting, not only did we see how the local traditional clothes were made but we also learnt about the traditional history of the Ashanti kings. at all times the king is forbidden to put his feet on the floor including bathtimes so he sits on his little stool and puts his feet on two ivory tusks when he dries himself! In our colonial days when we were greedy peeps we arrived in Ghana and saw the kings gold stool and decided we wanted it and when he wouldnt hand it over we threw our toys out of the pram and caused a war! due to this the king had a fake one made incase it ... read more