Bit fed up last night, went to sleep at 7.30pm as I was knackered from a hard physical day. Slept well enough, awake at 4.30am and dozed until 6.30am.
Exciting preamble to todays Blog post!
Dug three branch lines today, different village location and plagued by flies that just repeatedly try and fly into your eyes. B'stards.
I'll be honest, feeling very tired now and the flies have made another tough day a great deal harder.
A little ray of sunshine came in the form of one of the crazy Aama's coming out with a little wind up toy and cajoling 2 of the Volunteers to dance.
Finally got to see a tapstand demo, only 1 week left to go in this phase and we now have 19 more to build, along with the water reservoir, dig remaining branchlines, 4 awareness sessions, 2 toilets and 4 wash stations!
At about 4.30pm the Aama in our house called to say that she'd made a snack. A ran up the steps to be confronted by a bowl of purest green. Turns out that it is a Nepali stinging nettle soup with corn and chilli. It was pretty good, a little slimey but much nicer than I'd imagined. The nettles themselves, pre cooking, are really vicious, a sting hurts for almost 2 days, so pleased to report that there are currently no ill effects. The other upside is a massive injection of Iron which is very welcome.
Exciting preamble to todays Blog post!
Dug three branch lines today, different village location and plagued by flies that just repeatedly try and fly into your eyes. B'stards.
I'll be honest, feeling very tired now and the flies have made another tough day a great deal harder.
A little ray of sunshine came in the form of one of the crazy Aama's coming out with a little wind up toy and cajoling 2 of the Volunteers to dance.
Finally got to see a tapstand demo, only 1 week left to go in this phase and we now have 19 more to build, along with the water reservoir, dig remaining branchlines, 4 awareness sessions, 2 toilets and 4 wash stations!
At about 4.30pm the Aama in our house called to say that she'd made a snack. A ran up the steps to be confronted by a bowl of purest green. Turns out that it is a Nepali stinging nettle soup with corn and chilli. It was pretty good, a little slimey but much nicer than I'd imagined. The nettles themselves, pre cooking, are really vicious, a sting hurts for almost 2 days, so pleased to report that there are currently no ill effects. The other upside is a massive injection of Iron which is very welcome.
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