He only has himself to blame!

When you have too much of a good thing, you pay the price!!!

One of the Finance Staff is John Bosco. In addition to his work counselling patients who have difficulty paying their fees, JB has opened a small bakery and coffee house which we visit occasionally. Last week we went with Dr Jim and Suzanne, and their American visitor Barbara, and enjoyed a cup of coffee, cakes and short bread biscuits. A Good thing!!!

 

Last weekend Dr Jim and Suzanne returned to America having spent 3 months here. To say farewell we had a buffet lunch on a neighbour’s verandah where we ate food, cake, snacks and fresh papaya. Another very Good thing!!!

 However, this week Malcolm lost a filling, which meant he had to visit the hospital dentist.  A Bad thing!!! Yet, the experience was without pain (there being no need for an injection or drilling) when he had the tooth repaired. Mark the dentist was also quite pleased as most of his patients come when they are in so much pain he has to extract a tooth. The 3 patients before Malcolm had extractions but what was remarkable was that they all seemed very stoic and not bothered by the event – unlike Malcolm.

The lesson is, if you indulge too much in the good things, such as biscuits and cakes, beware of the price to pay. (Which in this case was £7.50 – a lot more than the £3 to have an extraction).

 We have a ’bug of the week’ this week which we assume is some sort of caterpillar crawing across our verandah. However it looks like some sort of 'Franken - bug' with two halves joined together.

 

This week’s African proverb from the BBC Africa web-site is from Ghana:  “A butterfly thinks itself a bird because it can fly”