The view from my bamboo hut
We have just arrived at Basata on the Red Sea after three days cut off from the outside world at Al Karm in the heart of the Sinai mountains. Will be putting our feet up for a while.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Hummingbird Hawk Moth
Found this little chap buzzing round the garden tonight - a huge moth with the amazing distinctive pattern on the wings. His right wing is a little moth-eaten though. Check out his curled tongue in the first picture. He was flitting round all the flowers gathering nectar.
Home made sushi
For Toby's birthday some kind soul gave him a do-it-yourself sushi kit. Everything you need for a sushi feast. And he decided to share it with me. For Single Dad Week (Felicity comes home tonight), just the two of us and some raw fish. All made from scratch.
We overdid the wasabi on our first Nigiri pieces and nearly had to call the paramedics. It was serious!Sunday, October 18, 2009
Cars of Cairo. 50's Mercedes
Any ideas on the model? 190? It's in beautiful condition all round. Spotted by Cafe Greco on Road 9.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Shane Beales - recording strings.
via shanebeales.com
A friend, worship leader, amazing songwriter and musician from Frontline church - home, really. Here's an insight into his work.
Posted via web from Jafferblog
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Went to desert, made a fire, cooked some steak.
Our Norwegian friends are staying with us this weekend. We knew each other very well the first time we lived in Cairo, in 1999 & 2000. So we took them to Wadi Digla of course. We explored a cave and had a great meal. Steak always tastes better cooked in the outdoors on a fire.
Monday, October 05, 2009
The tale of the towed truck
Bonus points to anyone who can identify this heap I found parked under a bridge last night.
Anyway, to the tale. For once the boot was on the other foot and it was not my car being towed. I went to rescue a friend whose 4x4 had broken down at Carrefour. It's quite an experience towing a big heavy car through Maadi at night. The traffic is heavier in the evening and no-one wants to cut you any slack. We had drivers trying to force their way in between the two cars, pedestrians trying to cross between the two cars (one guy nearly got his legs taken off by the tow strap) and a cyclist who stopped himself at the last possible moment from doing the same thing. And please bear in mind this is quite a short tow strap. At one point it even broke because my friend had to jam on the brakes as another driver tried to force his way past just as I was accelerating to get out of the way of the same driver. Poor tow strap. Still the package (4x4) was safely delivered to the mechanic in the end and we have another interesting experience added to our Cairo Chronicles.Saturday, October 03, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Church was on fire tonight. No, really. On. Fire.
Now you need to know that we worship in a tent attached to an Episcopal chapel in a suburb of Cairo. The tent has a steel frame and canvas roof panels and open sides. Power cables run from the switch box in the chapel through conduits, across the roof of the tent to the stage on the other side. Lots of power cables. And it was one or two of those that decided tonight, during the offering, to short out and burst into flames. We were about half way through the second service of our usual three services. There were about 500 people under the tent, and LD Frazier, a gospel singer from New York City was doing some special music while we took up the offering, just before the sermon. Suddenly there was a bang from the back of the tent and all the power on the stage went off along with some of the lights. Someone yelled "there's a fire, everybody get back" and someone grabbed a ladder and a fire extinguisher and climbed up to the top of the tent and put out the flames. We then started flipping breakers, and after a couple more dramatic bangs and pops from the fused cables we decided to kill ALL the power. The Master Switch. Darkness fell across the property. The kids in KidZone came out of their rooms because all the lights had gone off and the air conditioning too. People milled around and wondered what to do. Eventually we decided that we couldn't get some of the circuits back on safely as we didn't know which breakers were connected to the fused cables, so we cancelled church and spread the word. It was all Very Dramatic. Wow, we are so blessed that the canvas tent didn't catch fire, which would have spread in seconds and been a potentially fatal disaster. We are so blessed no-one was hurt and that there isn't much damage. God was looking after us tonight. I just hope we can get these cables repaired before the LD Frazier concert on Tuesday!Tickets are available...PS, who can guess the famous worship leader and song writer in this picture?
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