After the exertions of yesterday a lazy day on the beach was
called for today. Gill, John and Mell
set off to the beach just down from our house, and we arranged to meet them a bit later. We had an errand to run for Amy to help Francis
with his English exam arrangements, we met Francis in Kotu and completed the
errand before going on to Musa’s garage to check out the truck and make sure it
was all running correctly. Whilst we
were there we had a call from Kebba to say that he and Jim were on their way
across to Banjul from Barra, so we
went to collect them as they disembarked from the small boats. The wall at Kumbija should be finished by
Thursday, a slight hiccup yesterday as the workers surprised some bees and a
couple of the guys were chased by some very angry bees and got stung. We went
home and dropped Kebba off and then Jim joined us on the beach to surprise Mell
and stay for the afternoon. Lunch was
late coming as they had had to send someone to buy fish, and so we all had time to relax, swim and read for the
rest of the afternoon. After a relaxing
afternoon we returned home in time to shower and change for quiz night. A team of 6, we called ourselves ‘The Old
Colonials’ but as we won again we were renamed the ‘Clever Bastards from
Yonder’ a name we have decided to
keep. Jo at the bar insisted we spend some of our
winnings on the Bingo that followed, a decision she regretted when we won that
as well! More money into the charity
pot.
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