Wednesday 17th Feb

Dear All,
First a reply to some of your comments, for which thanks but none yet abusive enough to click the "Report Abuse" button which I want to do, so come on guys get going.
For Sally F - no, we haven't yet mastered posting photos, though we intend to have a go, before much longer. We'veonly just started bloging at all - so give us a chance, Sal. For Brian A - we will be catching a train next Tuesday to go to Alhahabad. "Only a 10 hour journey", they tell us. And once we join the travelling party from the UK in March we will be catching at least two more.Will let you know all about it.
Today we spent the morning preparing our seminar for the nurses on Friday pm and then some of the stuff for the conference next week. Elizabeth is an extremely difficult woman to work with. All her ideas are contrary to mine. This meant we spent much longer doing this than I had imagined but the arguing was fun after a bit.
As we finally declared an end to hostilities and were about to sign the peace treaty we were skyped, no less! Our first ever skype. A bit faint but perhaps this was because it was from NZ. We are just so international these days. Someone called Karen Warne who is co-ordinating the conference. Amazing to be here in the middle of India, talking through the laptop to someone on the other side of the world. We were on for ages and all for free. Later we got a skype message from TLM UK Head Office. We have put our nearest and dearest on our skype list but needless to say, after years of mocking us for being so untechnical and out of date none of the kids has accepted us yet.
Rest of the day was doing more interviews with staff. Some very touching. A man who has worked here for over 35 years first came when nobody would come and work because of the fear of contagion. A young man who had a good job, packed it in because he was missing christian fellowship and wanted to get back to going to church. He has taken a significant drop in salary but has no regrets at all. He had a lovely smile. It was very heartening talking to him.
That's about it for today but one prayer point : Leeds Utd lost again last night, 1-2 at home to Walsall. It's getting serious guys, we need to pray.