Finally a hello from my little house in Rwanda. It took me over 2 days to get back with a delay and overnight stop in Paris on Friday and then a delay and overnight stop in Nairobi on Saturday. I finally arrived on Sunday afternoon having left Chapeltown on Friday morning - only to find that both the water and electricity were off. Ho hum!!!!

There is a water tank outside my tiny little house but it has a hole in it and it just leaks water for the whole of the day. This is just such a criminal waste especially as so many people then have to walk miles for water. And there are so many people living in Rwanda who don't have accesss to clean water. We keep telling the people who run the Diocese but nothing happens. All it needs is a bit of welding and then we could have a flushing toilet and live the lap of luxury - well that is stretching it a bit far considering the state of my house and furniture but more luxury than most shall we say.

My house has been like bug city lately. I had a preying mantis walk in the door - strange visitor I know but he was beautiful He was about 4 inches long and the most beautiful green and he was preening himself like he knew it! Also had a huge black thing fell out of the roof onto Michael - it was like a big fat black beetle the size of your thumb. We were both staring at it when to our enormous surprise it spread out its wings and flew up at us. I just screamed and slammed the door in Michael's face leaving him to his fate - but he was legging it faster than his short legs could carry him. It was disgusting!!!!!!!

I have had bees dropping in through the ceiling and moths the size of a small saucer. Its been the ugly bug ball round here. You do just kind of get used to it though.

I also saw an amazing eagle the other day but I don't know what type it was. It swooped low into the tree by my house and I dashed for the binoculors. I could see it was eating something it had caught. It had grey feathers and was about 3 feet long and a very yellow head, so anyone reading this who knows about birds might be able to tell me what it is.

Also have some amazing birds in the garden - some bright green ones and some orange and black ones but no idea what they are.

So life has resumed its usual Rwandan patterns and I shall try to put some photographs on of the latest things.