There are some things that you can do without, and some you can’t!

Easter Sunday is always a special day in the Christian calendar. And this year we had a really special outdoor service we didn't want to miss at a nearby farm with the Iringa Christian Fellowship.

  

Irene offered to sing a song……..

 

….. and some puppets told, and sang the Easter story.

  

Compared with our other the other times we worked in East Africa there have been very few power cuts….. until this week. On Friday the power went off at ab9.30 and returned at 5.30. For most of the staff this made no difference to their work. They didn't miss the power as they continued working by hand or using treadle machines.  For us it was a problem – no power = no computers!

 

We were also invited to a ‘Pizza party’ by a couple of American Missionaries, who happen to have their own pizza oven. Malcolm did not take many photos as they all looked like this.

 

When he used a flash it ruined the atmosphere, and he almost ended up in the oven having blinded everybody else. They could have done without that!

 

One of the Missionaries had built their own house on the hillside. The geography of the area is such that the landscape is covered with massive boulders. It is hard work to try and remove them to clear the site, so what better way of dealing with one than to build the house around it and make it a feature. Not a furnishing you will pick up at IKEA!.

Finally, it was one of our cafe staff's birthday. Oneof the customs is that the person feeds cake to their friends. Malcolm couldn't do without that!