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Monday is a day of rest, although I am up with the sun out of habit. It is a holiday and the kids have no school so while Picaninny takes charge of the pile of laundry the rest of us drive into town to pick up a few essentials and let me change some money.
In the afternoon I open my bag of goodies. As well as the bits for the computer and for the Land Rover there are presents for Ken, Charlotte and the kids both from me and from Gaynor (the UK director of the PAW project). Then I get onto the computer, install the CD writer and the sound card, and get all the photos off my camera and the "diginocs". It looks like I have got a few useable pictures with them after all.

Days 17-18. Mon 3rd - Tues 4th May Lilongwe

DaveMidgley
2005-10-22 10:58:40

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Monday is a day of rest, although I am up with the sun out of habit. It is a holiday and the kids have no school so while Picaninny takes charge of the pile of laundry the rest of us drive into town to pick up a few essentials and let me change some money.

In the afternoon I open my bag of goodies. As well as the bits for the computer and for the Land Rover there are presents for Ken, Charlotte and the kids both from me and from Gaynor (the UK director of the PAW project). Then I get onto the computer, install the CD writer and the sound card, and get all the photos off my camera and the "diginocs". It looks like I have got a few useable pictures with them after all.

Later we go for a walk with Ken's two vimeranas, Donner and Blixom. Kenny is desperate to play with my frisbee, and ends up throwing it over the hedge into the tobacco field next door. It is going dark and eventually we have to send Picaninny round with a lamp, but they find it eventually. Kenny is fined some pocket money and is very contrite.

On Tuesday I start work. The morning is spent ringing round various people who may be able to help with the project. This is a frustrating task as the Malawian phone system is a bit hit and miss, and nobody seems to have answering systems, even on their mobiles. I feel somewhat inadequate in this line of work and am happy whenever Charlotte has a computer question to get me back into familiar territory.

The kids are home from school at 12:30 which puts an end to the peaceful working environment.

Ken announces that I am to go off to Mwabvi in the morning. I'd expected to go down with him, but has plenty to do in Lilongwe and decides that I can cope without him. Auxies, who was one of the drivers on the African Odyssey trip, and is still employed as Ken's mechanic, is to come with me as driver and interpreter. We set to to organise tents, provisions etc.

In the evening Ken braiis sausages for supper (braii - South African for barbeque).