Coffee Bar

We're so happy! ATS has started a Coffee Bar for us girls at the Senior Staff Bar in the Cons Camp. We had the "opening" last Thursday afternoon. Here is the cake made specially for the occasion. ATS is a hospitality management company operating remote exploration camps, industrial mine sites and contract catering services throughout Africa and responsible for all our catering and housekeeping needs here on site. Thanks guys - this is real "luxury" in a place like this.

Shrew

We've been seeing a few of these little fellows around. Here Amy is holding him - isn't he too cute for words? He stayed at the Wolfies' house for a couple of days but decided that he prefers the wild outdoors - much to the disappointment of the Wolfenden kids - and disappeared during an unguarded moment.

Growing Gardens

We are planting whatever we can find and there is more and more greenery around now.

Herewith a few images from my growing garden. It is so exciting to watch the plants and flowers grow and bloom from almost nothing (in just about nothing - the soil here is really not good). Just shows you, where there is a will, there's a way. I asked my gardener the other day if he also gets excited seeing the flowers, etc flourishing and you know what he said - "no madam, what excites me is when the other people come to admire".

Car Park

This is a section of our new car park for LMC vehicles. It is also the meeting place for the ladies who go for a group walk on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. The road stretching behind the vehicles leads to the Lumwana Lodge (a tented camp about 6kms away from us) and is the preferred exercise route for walking, jogging, cycling and of course, having a drink or a meal at the lodge. Sometimes on a Sunday morning, a few of us walk down to the lodge, have a breakfast or something to drink and walk back again. Wonderful!