Some truly random photos... really they are...

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I have failed to keep the blog up to date, guilty as charged. I've been a bit busy lately, to say the least. And distracted. And then in the last four days an earthquake knocked out the relay signal in Aceh and i had no access to the internet for two days. It felt like forever. So here are some random photos.


Location: My bedroom in camp Harapan. I have my own bedroom again!!! with my own ensuite. I will later take photos of the place. Although there is the question should i be wasting precious battery life on photos of bedrooms. But what the heck...

How often is one back at the rainforest restoration project?



Me in glasses!!! What a geek!!! Hee hee



Me and my older son. How i miss the boys so!!! Any guesses where this might be? Sunny, seaside... well... let you know later...



So my nephew. He is two and this is a photo taken in Ya Kun Kaya in Singapore!!! He was burying his face in the chocolate doughnut. It was the funniest thing i had seen in months. Well, no thats not stricktly true, but it was pretty funny.



That is the candleholder i made at blacksmithing class. So that was taken in the school - about two weeks ago. It's hard to believe that two weeks ago, well a little longer... i was going away like hammer and tongs... totally understand all those blacksmithing expressions which have entered our figures of speech. Strike while the iron is hot, red hot, etc...



My neice in Ya Kun Kaya, having a go at the signature soft boiled eggs and soya sauce.



Ah Binetter... i REALLY REALLY miss him. Midging my arms. Well i'll be back in six days time!! Seems like a life time away at this stage.




So the Norn Oirish amongst you who live in Bangor will know that this is indeed that icecream place in Bangor when there was that breif spell of summer just before i left. Here's Peter buying the boys their second round of icecream. Ah the simple things in life!

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