Saturday 1 February 2014

21.1.14 Tuesday Beach day



After the exertions of yesterday a lazy day on the beach was called for today.  Gill, John and Mell set off to the beach just down from our house, and we arranged to meet them a bit later.  We had an errand to run for Amy to help Francis with his English exam arrangements, we met Francis in Kotu and completed the errand before going on to Musa’s garage to check out the truck and make sure it was all running correctly.  Whilst we were there we had a call from Kebba to say that he and Jim were on their way across to Banjul from Barra, so we went to collect them as they disembarked from the small boats.  The wall at Kumbija should be finished by Thursday, a slight hiccup yesterday as the workers surprised some bees and a couple of the guys were chased by some very angry bees and got stung. We went home and dropped Kebba off and then Jim joined us on the beach to surprise Mell and stay for the afternoon.  Lunch was late coming as they had had to send someone to buy fish, and so we all had time to relax, swim and read for the rest of the afternoon.  After a relaxing afternoon we returned home in time to shower and change for quiz night.  A team of 6, we called ourselves ‘The Old Colonials’ but as we won again we were renamed the ‘Clever Bastards from Yonder’  a name we have decided to keep.  Jo at the bar insisted we spend some of our winnings on the Bingo that followed, a decision she regretted when we won that as well!   More money into the charity pot.

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