Thank you to all of you who have read and commented on our blog - it really encourages us.

I have been frustrated by not being able to respond to some of your comments - often I don't exactly know who has commented (who are you Andrew?!) I deliberately kept the website simple at first, so people would find it really easy to use.

Just in case you were wondering what's happened to our usual blogging this last week (one person emailed me...), we are sort of on holiday. Bingham Academy has a "mid semester break" this week and we have been able to borrow a really good 4x4 so we are getting some R&R. This weekend we went to a country Lodge (sounds posh - it was adequate!) for a couple of nights and visited an exquisitely beautiful crater lake about 100 km from Addis.