Christmas is Coming

OK I've been very quiet since August but now Christmas is coming I thought I'd just wish all those who look at this a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Yea.
Today I visited the Cheriton Grotto organised and run by a local arts group called Strange Cargo
http://www.strangecargo.org.uk/news/2011/cheriton-winter-grott/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000429145071
They have laid out a map of the area on the floor of the building and are asking residents to put a gold star on any property they have lived in. They are also asking folk to decorate tiny wooden houses which are displayed here and will form part of a number of 'Pop Up' art exhibitions next year. Well worth a visit if your in the area before it closes on 23rd December.

I called in because I had helped provide the map and considering it consists of 60 A0 sheets of paper they had done a great job of sticking it all together

Kites in the park

All welcome to come and join in

Second day home

Hi Folks sorry i was unable to post while I was away it was taking a couple of hours each night to keep the Church Blog up to date and after that I really wanted to sleep. I will try and up load some photos of Kolkata for you all to look at in the next few days.
 Having been in good health all the time I was away, two days back and I have an  upset stomach, so work tomorrow could be fun!

July 27th



Good News Childrens Educational Mission Bus



Had major problems getting on line so I'm sorry that there has been no information so far. but you can follow the team at http://www.favershambaptistchurch.org.uk/blog/ when every I can up date it but you will see a digest of Geoff's tweets posted at around 6.30pm each day.



25th July

A 5 and a bit hour stop over in Dubai and we left again at 2am, and I thought yesterday was tough, for the 4 and a bit hour flight to Kolkata.
The plane arrived roughly on time and then the enterable queue for immigration and baggage collection. between passport control & Customs I managed to loose the little slip of paper that we have to the customs officer. Fortunately they just gave me another one to fill in and all was ok. We were met by Pastor Asis Sarkar and two of the BMS staff with two 4x4’s to takes us too the guest house.

Kolkata traffic is very similar to Kampala’s but with fewer motor cycles and the taxis are yellow and black Ambasador’s and not Blue and white Toyotas!  Auto rickshaws, some times called Tuck Tuck, are a new feature to the urban landscape & we actually saw two of the famous Kolkata Rickshaw pullers, officially the use of Human power to pull a rickshaw is illegal in India but they still ply their trade in Kolkata.

The Guest house is in its own compound behind a tall brick wall but has a wonderful garden that, though you can hear the trafic outside is a haven of peace in the busy city

24th July

4.30 is a ridiculous time for an alarm to go off! But having got up and had half a cup of tea and more tablets than I really wanted to take, our lift arrived at 5.15 and having met up with the the team we drove to Gatwick and passed through to the departure lounge, except that Geoff set the metal detector off so we had to wait for him to be frisked!

Right that will teach me to make fun of Geoff’s misfortune I have just had my luggage scales confiscated in Dubai. I didn’t realise but they had a hidden tape measure in them which is not allowed on the plane, strange no one at Gatwick notice it. 6 hours wait in Dubai now.

39 hours to go!

OK  its all packed in the suitcase but it only weighs 22kg what have I forgotten?

My allowance is 30kg and I have about 2kg of craft materials for the school we will work with. I'm sure I have missed some thing.

My hand luggage is 5kg it was 7 on the way to Uganda my binoculars cant weigh 2kg!

Oh well if i have forgotten any thing i'm sure i can buy it in Kolkata.

Oh by the way the Bengali script to the left says KOLKATA.
fun eh