Darn It, Bugs 1 - Dave 0 !!!

I make no apologies for using someone else's blog in mine - it is to further illustrate exactly what is sacrificed by the wonderful people who work here and dedicate themselves to what God wants in a place that most people wouldn't choose to be. 
Please take the time to read what is contained in it and watch the short video clip:

http://onetinystarfish.blogspot.in/

The reason for my title to this latest blog is probably self-explanatory. They got me! 
Where the mosquitoes have tried and failed for over 3 weeks (apart from itchy bites) - something else didn't. After getting up and starting to get ready for another day's work - I suddenly felt what was coming - and it did! I won't put any pictures up - but my banana and chocolate chip cookies breakfast decided to put in a re-appearance along with my 3 mugs of coffee!
It was a short, sharp few moments and no real after effects - but I decided to take the morning off to avoid sharing any repeats with my new American 'daughters' whilst painting the windows at Victory Home. 
But that sort of went south though - I went with the girls anyway in the end to meet up with a welder - we are erecting grilled off areas (pictures later), repairing heavy gates, and also a man to lay the concrete on the cleared old toilet area. The girls keep nagging at me to drink water and I survived that morning without embarrassing myself from either end - decided to give the afternoon a miss now. Sunday will be a rest day anyway so I WILL be back in action on Monday.
(The above will be a real surprise to my wife and kids - I don't do precautionary!)
 

Anyway - where we're at, me and some of 'my girls' have moved on to painting the windows, doors and gates at Victory Home 

                                                   Team A

and skiving when I'm not looking! (I'm sure that the picture will translate to Americans what skiving means)

While the resident lads from the home,  Indian ladies and myself broke our backs throwing the huge pile of rubble from the old toilet building over the wall into a tractor trailer.:

The Team - still thought that I didn't know what they were doing AGAIN a short while later

Is skiving an American thing?

              

As well as my wife, Ann (obviously)

 

I'm missing the dogs

BOSCO

                                            and BERTIE

                         And of course my kids and their kids.
I am so grateful to them for their prayers and support for me - as well as all of the other lovely emails and comments I'm receiving not only from England - but also other part of the world - it does help.

The other day I Skyped my son, Jon and he told me that this was such a strange thing for ME to actually do and he found it difficult to believe that I'm actually in this place and that it looks like I've been airbrushed into the pictures. 

Little does he know - that's what I've done - I never got on the plane and I'm actually in a hotel in a secret location in England!

Well it's near the end of February 8th and I'm extremely downhearted, disappointed and dejected - I feel unloved and forgotten. Why? Because I learned this today - it's a very special day and NOTHING!!!:

Not one person did I hear be called Dave - except me!