I seem to start each blog with an apology for not writing for ages. Since my last blog I have had my first visitor to Ghana, had two birthday parties (both different, both fun but only one involved my new cat and an adult pass the parcel!) and as most of you will know been back to the UK. All three of these events deserve their own special blog and I will get round to it but as my blogs are getting longer and longer I don't quite have the strength yet and so am ...

After the removal of all the PC vols from the area, a countdown of just over a month before the Danish Health Workers leave and a few weeks before the National Volunteers come to the end of their placements I was feeling a little down. How do you cheer yourself up when you're feeling down? Three things; watch a lot of 'True Blood' my new guilty pleasure. (Sex, violence, vampires and ware-panthers, how could that not fail to be amazing!), go to a birthday party ...

Work.....The beginning This next set of blogs is turning into that pesky second album. The first album came out to (almost) critical acclaim, thousands of people (my dad) are clamouring for a follow up and it keeps getting pushed back with empty promises! Only time will tell if this set is a masterpiece or if I fall heavily from my pedestal! Have given up in trying to keep up my blogs week to week as don't seem to have the discipline! So have come up with thre...

Right, going to do Tumu this time. Was thinking about telling you about hippos and Easter (check the photos out for brief explanations) but after the clambering for details about my home life (well maybe not clambering, my family have expressed a vague interest and one or two others have asked about my accommodation) I thought I would put you out of your misery! This next few blogs will be a crash course in everything that has happened over the last few week...