Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Full House

It is raining Kiwis at our place at the moment. Andrew Smith lead the charge, arriving for his second visit here two weeks ago. Now we have an additional six guests - so there are nine of us all up camped here.

Peter Parker and his 17-year old daughter, Larny, from Waitara, Taranaki arrived last Friday. Peter is here to lend a hand to get the Healing Home ship-shape. He's loving it here, despite a suspected kidney stone flare-up hitting him a few days ago. He's off for a fancy nancy x-ray first thing tomorrow. Larny is doing great, spending this week with our friend Kerry who works in a slum outreach to children.

Then, Annie Chen our hugely energetic doctor friend from Christchurch has also arrived, also for her second visit with us. She accomplishes more in a day than I dream of in a week! Ben was next to come, a great young bloke out of Masterton whom Andrew really felt to invite out. He's come for a week. Then last night Christine and her daughter Roberta from Christchurch pulled in for three weeks.

Andrew and Ben jump on a bus tomorrow for a couple of nights visiting an old friend who has been involved in establishing micro-enterprise initiatives in the provinces for eight years or so.

I'm lining up Annie's camera for a day soon so we'll get everybody's mug-shots up soon!

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