welcome!

new email address for anyone that has been trying to contact me through the NTLworld one - it seems to have crashed or something - anyway my new email is starfishbm@yahoo.com so the same first bit (wow i am so inventive) and just a change of the last part.

coming home soon so this blog will be ending its life soon, but am planning to write a more extensive (yes you heard me right MORE estensive) account when i get back.

oh and a request for when i get back - im not expecting everyone to start calling me Bee
as i am here but you can at least shorten it to Bron! Thanks xx

less than a month to go.. what more dangerous / exciting antiques can i get up to? we'll just wait and see!

have actually to tell you that iv changed my flight AGAIN (but is that a surprise as i have always been one for doing the unexpected/changing my mind alot!) to the 24th of June (arriving early on the 25th) so that i will be around for a very important occasion held by one of my oldest friends Catherine in Cambridge. so see you even sooner!

Saturday, February 16, 2008

a range of kenya photos...

me nd ngore having a secret snack in the stores. that was way back before my birthday in jan when the stores actually had things to snack on! now there isnt even enough maise to give everyone and the kitchen has vertually given up...
this is a pic of me inside the M6 (vehicle donated to the Red Cross after the vietnam war) getting out clothes for distribution in Koresoi, this was back in december when we were just dealing with IDPs from the clashes bearing no relation to the elections, ok that is not quit true they were incited by the politicians even then, but we did not have IDPs on the same scale as now.



this is a pic of charles, me and scovia posing for fun when we were doing the family day at molo before christmas. i have had alot of fun making friends at the red cross, these two are particularly close ones.




this is a pic of me (with new short hair) at the campsite carrying a tent. as you can see they are hefty things, needing two to carry them. these are UN tents in which we have housed two families per tent, when i left there were around 1300 up. theyr pretty tricky as ten people are needed to hoist them up and often the poles are broken or the slots are stuck together. that is not to mention the difficulty of getting the IDPs to co-operate! but dispite the tough conditions, the work was great fun, the volonteers were a good team and i got a tan! all good... apart from the blistered fingers...


this is a picture of me at red cross branch stamping meal voultures for the IDPs at the showgroud a couple of weeks ago. thes where very premitave pieces of card, ripped into squares, stamped reading name, date, date of return, baggage, and a signature, and of course the red cross stamp i am holding to show it was bonefide. they were so scrappy coz we would need several 1000 per day, but really a joke as i did later find thjat the gateman was not even checking them! the idea was to monitor inflow but is is SO hard, people dont want to co-operate at all.


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