Settling into a Routine

Claire has made it back to England! She is now safely back in London after all her travels up and down the long road from Dodoma to Dar es Salaam! (We couldn't post this news earlier, since alot of Tanzania has had no internet connection most of this week).

We waved Claire off last Saturday from the Dodoma bus station:


Off she goes on the bus...


There were some other interesting buses to be seen, including this one which travels between "Dod and Man"- but I'm pretty sure that could not be Dodoma to "Manchester"!! Our recent visitor, Jacqui, could have travelled overland all the way here at Easter, if that were really the case- but I can only imagine how long -and adventurous -such an epic journey would be by bus!

(N.B. In Swahili, the letters L and R are similar-sounding, hence the slightly confusing bus slogan!)

Since Claire left, life is settling back down into a routine, after a wonderful 3 weeks of visitors from England and Easter holidays. Esther returned to school for the final term of the school year-


And household chores continue at home, starting daily with our early morning milk delivery and first Swahili exchange of the day-



then sieving and boiling our milk-


and removing the cream-

...before the cooling process and finally placing the milk in the fridge. Takes rather longer than the simple process of collecting our milk in England and popping it straight into the fridge!