This is my first post ... and really just an excuse to introduce the main posts that I opened this blog for...

The first thing you'll notice is that the date for this entry is not just not brand spankingly du jour, it is in fact old. Not just old, but in fact OLD. In fact it's like so last year!!

Let me explain.

.... Are you sitting comfortably .... perched on the edge of your chair and hunched over a keyboard? .... or tucked up in bed with your laptop acting as stand in for a water bottle (cos water bottles are so not du jour as well arent they?)? ...? Hmmm - I think I've just overdone the embedded levels of questions here! :-)


In March 2006 I took part in Mission Malawi 2 - a charity fundraising challenge to support the work of ActionAid's HIV/AIDS projects in Malawi and Zimbabwe. See my journal entry on the trip starting on March 12th 2006....


Late edit... When I originally setup this blog I promised myself that I would fill in daily posts for the following entries as well... Needless to say I never went back to add them, so the following is a brief summary of posts that never occurred! But all the photos are on my Flickr website - so go browse those instead!!

After the challenge I travelled down to Maputo, Mozambique. I visited the ActionAid office there to introduce the Mission Malawi concept and lay some groundwork for plans as we think ahead to Mission Malawi 3... Malawi and Mozambique combined? See my journal entry for this trip starting on March 26th 2006...

Then I returned to Lilongwe, Malawi and volunteered at the ActionAid office helping out on their IT Support. Some thoughts from that experience start on April 2nd 2006...

I also had a chance to go and visit the old family home in Limbe, Malawi. I visited twice while I was in Malawi and I've documented this in my entries on March 13th and April 8th 2006...



But I did do this one...

Finally I've also uploaded a link to my September 11th 2001 photos as a few people asked me about these. See the brief introduction journal entry on that date to link to those photos.


I hope that you find something of interest in all of this. Please feel free to send me your comments and thoughts!