Jellyfish on the Veranda
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Newsletter
No 8
June
2002
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Steve
and Jude in Honduras
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Another dose of amoebas and giardia and here we are
in June – how time flies! Belén
is a great place to live. Not
many people get to walk to work along a white, sandy beach, for example
and, as we have mentioned before, the Miskito people are warm hearted and
have a tremendous sense of fun. This
newsletter is devoted to the theme of what life is like for us in Belén
including some of the little surprises that each day brings…
The Good Life
Although
far from self-sufficient we are managing to keep ourselves in green
peppers, cucumbers, radishes and, depending on what sort of the mood the
hens are in, eggs. We have
also just had a reasonable cashew nut harvest and the Nance trees, of
which we have many, are about to yield a huge amount of their small,
yellow fruit. At a later date
we will have pigeon peas, cassava, bananas, plantains, paw paws and
coconuts.
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We
still have several cats (and consequently no rats, mice or bats) and have
recently acquired a puppy called Lewis.
The latter is primarily because during the fishing ban when all the
young men are at home without a great deal to do, walking on the beach
alone is not such a good idea. He
will also provide protection for the house.
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The
mother of the two kittens pictured right is a good hunter but sometimes
surprises us with what
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she
chooses to bring back. One
morning the offering was half a jellyfish… yum!
Quote of the month: ‘S & J, did you bring an iguana?’
Context: Jarle
the pilot looking in the hold of his 6 seater plane and discovering that
someone has left their supper behind – a live iguana!
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Have you ever seen a cow being transported in a
dugout canoe? They tie the
legs together and then tip them in so they are lying on their sides.
The chickens they transport upside down, again with their legs tied
together, hanging from a pole. Apparently
each pole can accommodate about 6 chickens!
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Excelentisimo!
We
now have a solar-powered fridge which means cold drinks (wow – cold
water never tasted so good!) and a move away from having to cook two hot
meals a day because of the inability to store anything perishable for any
length of time. Thank you
Tearfund!
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Things
we miss
After
18 months away from the UK the things we miss most, as well as family and
friends of course, are:
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Long
summer evenings
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Hot
showers/baths
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Crisp
autumn days
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Wild
Edinburgh ceilidhs
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Mushrooms
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Cadbury’s
‘Biscuit Boosts’
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Services
at our home church, St Mungo’s
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The
occasional night in with a Chinese take away, bottle of wine and a video.
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Marie-Claire
Apparently Jude didn’t appear in the June edition
of Marie-Claire after all. Tearfund
contacted them to find out why and they said that the article would
definitely be published but they weren’t sure when. Sorry we can’t be more specific and sorry to all of you
who ordered the June copy especially…
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*News flash:
famous singer visits Belén*
Guillermo Anderson, a famous Honduran singer of songs
about the environment, gave a free concert in the small mosquitian village
of Belén last week. “The
crowd
were
entranced, I don’t think the kids had ever seen anything like it” says
Steve Collins, Guillermo’s tecky for the night.
An amplifier and microphone were brought
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by dugout canoe from a neighbouring village but the
singer had to make do with the light from a
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single bulb. The
community cut wood from the forest to make a temporary stage and a bit of
plastic tubing was fixed to a piece of left-over mahogany to form a
microphone stand. “It was a
wonderful experience”, said Guillermo after the concert, “and a
privilege to visit such a beautiful place”.
For more pictures, visit Guillermo’s website.
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Thank you for all your continued support.
Hasta la proxima!
Jude & Steve
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However many years a person may live, let them enjoy
them all. Ecclesiastes 11:8
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If
you move house, get a new email address or would like to be removed from
our Newsletter mailing list, please contact Jude’s sister and
brother-in-law, Ruth & Stephen Smith.
Please also contact them if you would like to receive our monthly
prayer bulletins. Their
contact details are:
email: ruthandstephen@ukonline.co.uk
Our correspondence
address is:
c/o
MOPAWI, Residencial Tres Caminos, Apartado Postal 2175, Tegucigalpa, MDC,
Honduras
Our email address is: s-j.collins@tearfund.org
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