Three days’ rest with a bunch of teachers and their families at the SIM lakeside retreat of Babogaya should have been a break from work. Most of the time it was. Except for Saturday afternoon. Whilst hovering my quadcopter over the tennis court videoing a few of the youngsters playing a form of the game quite hard to identify, I was told someone had fallen down the stairs and knocked themselves out and could I please come?

We have been staying about an hour and a half out of Addis beside a crater lake for a long weekend. School was closed Friday to enable staff to rest and recuperate. As I floated across the lake in a canoe yesterday, I can highly recommend it; basic facilities notwithstanding. It is a great opportunity to chat to colleagues about something other than work too which can’t be bad.