26.12.13 Thursday. Back to work

Back to work today.  Most of the shops and businesses here do not close for Christmas at all, yesterday was a normal working day for nearly everyone.  We went to Naata today to make sure the work is finished before the children return after the break.  We had been asked to provide notice boards in the classrooms to save the paint work from all the blu-tack, and so we stopped and bought plywood on the way to school.  Kebba had arranged for a generator to be hired so Steve could use his electric drill to mount the boards, and so after he had dropped us at the school he went off with Ibraima to fetch the generator.  Ruth, John and I spent the morning cleaning the classrooms ready for painting and removing all the posters from the walls and as much of the blu tack as we could.  There were a lot of bugs living behind the posters, they have been up for 3 years, it was time for a change.  As usual things didn’t go to plan as the generator only worked for 5 minutes before needing maintenance and had to be taken away to a mechanic. So instead of a morning job, we were there nearly all day.. Tired, dirty and thirsty we stopped at Timeless on the way home for lots of water and a meal.  The choice for the TV tonight was Gavin and Stacey and we watched all of series one before retiring, an excellent choice, it is still good to watch and made us all laugh..