another week in my world...

Greetings from warm and dry Mzuzu!

Although you can maybe see from the picture of the sunrise that it is cool enough in the morning for there to be quite a lot of mist and it can take a little time to clear away, the cold season is coming. This morning there is a lot of singing and drumming close by to the Synod, I'm not sure why but it lovely!

This week I started back to work and as you can see my office table is filling up nicely with many new tasks. I am slowly beginning to make my way through the tasks that have been waiting for my return!

At the end of last week I helped Diane start to sort through at least some of the resources for ECD that had arrived with the last container. It is a big job! It is great to think that with the help of people who take the time to fill and send boxes that we can help the nurseries here to make a start.

Some of the filled small boxes that will be taken out to the nurseries around the presbyteries.

My neighbours are busy again and yesterday when I was coming home from work I spied them also finishing work for the day. They had been drying and packing their maize all day and they told me that they had about 3 more weeks of working with their harvest before it would be completed. It is hard work.

The other afternoon I spotted the postman arriving at the Synod. His lorry is a little bigger than my NI postie's bicycle and bag in Northern Ireland! I enjoyed the slogan on the lorry - 'Worth your Trust' - wonder what the slogan would be for Royal Mail?

There are many visitors to my home and they come at all times, I never quite know what I will find next. Yesterday morning at breakfast time I spotted a few legs poking out from the edge of my calendar so I decided to investigate...

They turned out to belong to a flat spider who moved fairly quickly after he spotted me. He is quite harmless but was not whom I expected to share my coffee with!

This small frog was resting on my bedroom chair.

I also found some hornets very busily making a new nest in the space at my front door hinge. Their nest is beautiful but I had to remove it as it is not a good thing to have around the house.

A praying mantis on my verandah roof watching me watching it!

One of the many geckos who help keep the numbers of mosquitos down. My home can be quite like a zoo!

I enjoyed a 'welcome back' vist from Reverend and Mrs Munthali.It was good to hear their news.

Finally a very special visitor to my home. This is Blessings, Busy's son. He was born last year shortly after Busy began working at the house. I was very privileged to be asked to give him his name and it was great to meet both him and his mum last week when they called to the house.

As you can see life is very varied and each day brings something new. I never know quite what to expect next!

I hope that you enjoy a good week.

Love and blessings

Fiona