Hello, family and friends!
On Monday, we celebrated our second wedding anniversary. When we celebrated our first anniversary last year in Sheffield, we could choose just about any type of food and drink from any part of the world. In rural Nigeria, one's options are much more limited but we made the best of it. We took the liberty of taking our staple evening meal of rice and stew back to our house (we usually eat with the residents in the dining room to be community with them, even though the place smells) and added to it red onion, cucumber and Heinz tinned salad (that also contains mayonnaise). We also spoiled ourselves with olives and chocolate chip cookies. We also toasted the occasion with a bottle of red wine (don't tell the Deaconness). There is basically only one make of wine you can buy here (the Spanish Baron de Valles) but at least that makes one's decision easier (I can't tell you the number of minutes of my life I've wasted perusing the vast array of wines in Morrisons desperately trying to make the right choice) and it's a relative steal at just over 2 pounds per bottle.
This last week couldn't be any different to our honeymoon week two years ago. For a start, Hazel has been away these last two nights supporting the "other" Project Comfort in Ohafia. We will be reunited later today. We plan to stay in Umuahia tonight and then travel to Benin (the city in Nigeria, not the country next to Nigeria) tomorrow with our Northern Irish colleague, Elaine. However, these last few days the country has been plagued by industrial action in protest at the recent increases in fuel prices - Hazel was lucky to get to Enugu and back last Friday - so we shall have to play it by ear. Anyway, it's not a good start for the new administration that was sworn in last month.
In terms of work, my team has been busy preparing the 2006 and 2007 quarter 1 accounts, as well as a budget for second half of 2007, ready for the Board meeting next Tuesday. I'm sorry, but I can't think of any way of making accountancy seem more interesting. But I'm happy to say I'm enjoying the work much more than I thought I would.
The weather here is getting slightly cooler, particularly at night and first thing in the morning, but I still haven't yet had the need to wear "double clothes" as they say here (that is, more than one layer). Hazel has, but that is mainly to protect herself from the dreaded mosquitoes that are getting much more vicious in this rainy season.
Well, I hope you are all enjoying BBQs and strawberries and cream in our absence. Have a vegetarian sausage on us!
Andy
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Howdy friends,
GOod to hear from you, sorry I haven't emailed in a while, I promise to rectify that soon! Happy Anniversary, and I hope your travels went well. We're all flooded in Sheffield here at the moment so not many bbqs to be had (we've been the main headline on the news and everything - all a bit dramatic!) Lucy x
Hey guys. Good to hear your news. Also raining here in Sudan. I'm with Hazel on the clothes thing, less tan 30 degrees and I need a jumper.
I have to say I'm struggling here but I seem to remember you had a period of that after about 3 months so I know I'll get through it!
Prayinh that your next year of marriage will be even more blessed than the last two.
xx
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