Hello From Timbooktoo Bookshop

Just a quick hello from the bookshop in Fajara. No photos this time the connection is very slow! Preparations for the festival at Kartong are going well with the local people having done the ground work before we arrived which is just great and bodes well for the future sustainability of the Festival.

We’re fine and thankfully I’m not having any side effects from Doxycycline (anti-malarial) drugs and feel very well indeed.

The festival is this coming Friday and Saturday so I’ll try and get some good photos.

No idea when I’ll get online again but no doubt

I’ll Be Back!!!

Auxerre

We’ve just had the best part of a week staying on some friends’ boat which is moored in Auxerre where they’ve spent the winter. It’s a lovely boat – a Dutch Barge replica with good heating and well-proportioned living space.

It was really cold in Auxerre though – I was expecting France to be warmer but it was colder than the UK!

I’ve spent most of the week sorting out all the replacement bank cards, driving licence etc for the bag snatch last week but at last it’s nearly done. Any of you whose mobile number I had who hasn’t yet private messaged it to me please do as I lost my mobile phone as well!

We’re back to Gambia next week to help with the two festivals in Kartong and Dombondir so exciting times!

Meeting PD and Bag Snatch – What a Drag!!

Well I had a lovely couple of days showing the notorious PD round Bristol – we had a fine old time including The Suspension Bridge (no he didn’t jump), an exotic night out to hear the lovely Mark Darkside do a gig, jam-making and cooking and an open mic session after going round the wonderful SS Great Britain before PD headed off to London.

Yesterday evening I was going to my weekly drum class at Banbury and a little hooligan grabbed my handbag off the passenger seat of my car and ran off with it – inside of course were all my cards, money, diary, keys to the Bristol flat, driving licence, etc etc. I’ve spent the whole day sorting it all out and trying to get mobile numbers back as both my phones were nicked as well. GRRRRRRRR@£**%!!

What a waste of time……………..little f*%ker!!!

My son's London warehouses..

This is a film of one of the things my son does in London – amongst the many other things such as clowning and assorted performance art!

BUILDING OF A ROOM, K7, ARENA DESIGN CENTRE, HARINGEY

I’ve posted here as Efx3 is currently afflicted with some malware attack which Pixie assures me will be fixed in due course.

I’ve had a rotten couple of days in bed with a yuck virus which I won’t detail here but on the mend now and looking forward to going away drumming for a few days on Weds then meeting the legendary PD next week if all goes to plan.