A BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO RYAN & LEWIS
When Paul arrived home from work we drove in the car to Palma Rima which is just around Kotu Point. We parked up and walked along the beach as usual having the odd local bumster asking us if we wanted some juice or showing us jewellery to buy. We eventually arrived at the Senegambia Hotel there were quite a few people sat on the sun beds so the tourist season is picking up, we then turned around and walked back. On the way home we stopped of at Mains shopping centre to get a few bits, they seem to cater more for ex pats so they do have quite a good selection of cheese, ham and meat on display and some items are much cheaper than the shops on Kariba Avenue.
We have invited Emily over for dinner, so I set about warming up the beef stew I had cooked earlier, putting the rice onto boil, and making an eve’s pudding by stewing a couple of mango’s instead of apples. Because I had no dish to put it in I ended up using one of the pans, hoping it will turn out okay. Emily arrived along with Paul who was just returning from a quick run. She had brought a bottle of wine for dinner (the first we have had since arriving here) and some chocolate biscuits for the children which they were pleased with. I had to delay the dinner as the eve’s pudding just didn’t seem to be cooking however I turned the heat up a bit more and it did eventually rise. We ate dinner enjoying seconds of the eve’s pudding which was yummy with the mango’s I will definitely be making it again. After a couple of games of Uno we put Abigail and Bradley to bed and then sat and chatted.
Emily is a Paediatric Doctor working in Banjul at the Royal Victoria Hospital which has been quite an experience for her to see young children dying each day from malaria or malnutrition. She told us of one occasion she had finished her shift only to have a very under nourished child come in so unlike the Cuban Doctors who left (and are earning more than her) she stayed and tried to get a needle into the child’s already collapsed veins and spent an evening watching the child only to have the child die later that night very sad. Paul then walked Emily onto Kariba Avenue where it was lighter for her to make her way home.
When Paul arrived home from work we drove in the car to Palma Rima which is just around Kotu Point. We parked up and walked along the beach as usual having the odd local bumster asking us if we wanted some juice or showing us jewellery to buy. We eventually arrived at the Senegambia Hotel there were quite a few people sat on the sun beds so the tourist season is picking up, we then turned around and walked back. On the way home we stopped of at Mains shopping centre to get a few bits, they seem to cater more for ex pats so they do have quite a good selection of cheese, ham and meat on display and some items are much cheaper than the shops on Kariba Avenue.
We have invited Emily over for dinner, so I set about warming up the beef stew I had cooked earlier, putting the rice onto boil, and making an eve’s pudding by stewing a couple of mango’s instead of apples. Because I had no dish to put it in I ended up using one of the pans, hoping it will turn out okay. Emily arrived along with Paul who was just returning from a quick run. She had brought a bottle of wine for dinner (the first we have had since arriving here) and some chocolate biscuits for the children which they were pleased with. I had to delay the dinner as the eve’s pudding just didn’t seem to be cooking however I turned the heat up a bit more and it did eventually rise. We ate dinner enjoying seconds of the eve’s pudding which was yummy with the mango’s I will definitely be making it again. After a couple of games of Uno we put Abigail and Bradley to bed and then sat and chatted.
Emily is a Paediatric Doctor working in Banjul at the Royal Victoria Hospital which has been quite an experience for her to see young children dying each day from malaria or malnutrition. She told us of one occasion she had finished her shift only to have a very under nourished child come in so unlike the Cuban Doctors who left (and are earning more than her) she stayed and tried to get a needle into the child’s already collapsed veins and spent an evening watching the child only to have the child die later that night very sad. Paul then walked Emily onto Kariba Avenue where it was lighter for her to make her way home.
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