Update on Fire.

The funerals of what is left is taking place tomorrow, Wednesday, with a road blocked off to make space for all the dignatories expected to join the bereaved families. In the meantime much of my time has been taken up with helping Bridget and another ten year old to find replacements for their clothes, shoes and everything else they had and then to find them a new school, Unfortunately this has to be boarding which will not be easy since it means sleeping in a domintory again. Food also is a problem. The standard school menue is Posho and beans whith some meat and motoke [banana] at the weekend. Posho is maize meal which seems to very hard on the stomach and difficult to cope with if you come from a part of the country where it is not part of the normal diet. As Bridget described it when she had to gave it: she had snakes in her stomach. not much of a recommendation. I just hope that by adding little by little into her meal she will train her digestion to cope. I find it intensely boring less taste but rather the constiuency of hard cooked semolina. Oh for a hamburger and chips.