Winter Tour 2011/12 - a lot of 'young' and some older ladies

In the past week we have travelled from:
- Plymouth to Newcastle under Lyme
- to Birmingham
- to Milton Keynes

with Malcolm taking a couple of diversions to Amersham in order to get the car's brakes repaired.

In Newcastle we went to the sunday service at our old church. Malcolm already knew tht one church member had done her 'elective' year at Mvumi Hospital in Tanzanis where we worked in 2008 and 2009, but we then discovered that another member had done his elective at Kisiizi Hospital in Uganda, where Malcolm had done some work in July and August - a small world indeed. Andy had been a bit bolder as he had gone to Uganda during Idi Amin's dictatorship of terror, and we have heard abouthow soldiers had visited the Hosital to try and intimidate the staff into not holding services in the hospital chapel.

While in Newcastle we:
- took our youngest daughter, Pamela, out for a meal.
- had lunch with malcolm's 'old' Management Team from the Borough Council.

Then off to Birmingham to see Irene's mother and sister Betty.

Next stop - Milton Keynes, and pick up the car from Amersham