Lack of blog

Very sorry for a 2 week break in the blog - we're OK! Thank you so much to those of you who email to check we're alright.
The reasons for the absence of blog posts can be 3-fold : 1) No internet 2) Too busy or 3) life continuing rather routinely and thinking that there's nothing much of interest to report. This time it was all three - and a few extras!!
We've had no internet at home for a week and struggling with whatever slow connection we can get from a modem (dongle) which takes ages and is very frustrating. We're both busy due to my increased English teaching load and Alastair being on call for emergencies at Shunga which is an hour's tough drive each way every time he has to go.
and 3) life ticks along with college, hospitals, church, dust........the subjects of many previous blogs.
Also it has been very hot, now building up to the rains which should come next month. I find the heat very "enervating" especially in the afternoons and miss being able to have any decent exercise. I would usually get a good walk each day or 3/4 hour's Pilates to my DVD, but at present collapse with a fan!  Lack of water is an added frustration at present, and we're surviving with "very advanced bucket management"!
For assorted reasons, mainly Harvest festivals, church services seem to have been exceptionally long recently taking up most of Sunday. Harvest involves the bringing to church of vast quantities of crops, particularly large hands of green bananas. These, together with maize, beans, sugar cane, peanuts and live chickens fill the altar area and then at the end of the service, for another hour or so, are auctioned for cash. It's a far cry from the tins of baked beans of harvest services in Britain. As not many people have a cash income Alastair and I buy what we can, load the car and bring it back for the Bible college students. This seems  a good win-win system!