Thanks

Computers and especially blogs for us older people are really all a bit too confusing, so last week as i had changed our gmail account and thought I would be clever and change my settings on our blog. So far so good! It was going well until somewhere i managed to delete myself and could no longer access my account! So what to do now, well what else but contact your computer genius friend, Thanks Mark N. and a big cheer to you.....

We also had a great time away at beautiful location to celebrate two of our friends getting married .. fun time had by all.

full house again...

We have just enjoyed a couple of days with a house full with 31 IYs. Another gathering for training, where we all cram into the house, IYs sharing mattresses and sleeping areas, we eat plenty of posho and Steve gives input ...this time there was practice at public speaking. There are other opportunities through the year but this weekend the teenagers were given a topic, a few minutes to plan, and then told to deliver a 1 minute videoed talk to the rest of the group - they are then 'marked' by their piers with helpful comments on how they performed.

Cooking is done - very simply - on 3 sigiris, which are kept hot pretty much the whole day: cooking beans and boiling water for tea takes time when there are 41 to cook for. We dont do it all ourselves - I (Kathryn) am helper to Florence who comes in extra hours when we have a full house like this....

Of course there is always time to relax as well ....