The Macdonald files

Hi feeling poorly today so it wont be my usual jabbering on for hours!it will be early to bed I hope!had a music practice in the city..so had two bus journeys on my own…the usual 3 on one seat crush..but I kept safe..and enjoyed playing a piano.Helping to lead in church tomorrow..should be good.Been teaching lots this week..the kids here are so willing to learn..it’s a lot of fun…Seth has been helping teach kids maths he has been a real help.Darcy is a social animal and is always out with her friends..and flora has aquired a passion for recorder playing..which we are trying to encourage !!!despite the intense pain it causes in our heads. I have been enjoying bouncing on the trampoline…showing them tricks..which once they have mastered get a lollipop.. its lots of fun…stops the boredom of manning a line of eager bouncers!Its been a full week of entertaining people who just drop in..one evening 5 extras appeared for tea..it was Hamishs chips and egg evening..but he was still out when everyone arrived so it was like a local chippie for a few hours with me sweating over the chip pan…I think I have inherited my mums habit of always making a bit more just in case any one pops in…the world has cottened on !!and pops in very frequently…but I much prefer it that way to pre arranged drop ins!its more spontaneous…and you don’t have to worry what the house looks like!what am I going on about..oh Don Pablos dog which we all loved died yesterday..he thinks he ate poison..a few pet dogs have been poisoned this week by poison we think put down for the rats or the dogs..such a shame…and yet all the flea bitten skinny unloved pitiful dogs..don’t seem to have eaten any!!must go to bed in need of sleep to get better really dodgy tummy its that been up all night feeling…don’t know whats up..but head is wrecked(my daughter and that recorder!)post this in teguc tomorrow..night night..listening to Damien Rice chilling me out love it.Take care love Rachel and the clan.XX

A word from Hamish

Sat in our kitchen writing email so I can send them quickly tomorrow when we go down to Tegus as we hope to treat the kids out to the cinema as it is Flora’s Birthday on Tuesday, where has 6 years gone!! Been a very busy week, today put in the foundation for the 5^th house, we use over 17 bags of cement for the concrete, thankfully there was 10 of us working on it. It has been a hard week as we had to dig out the foundations this week by pick and shovel, why don’t they have a bobcat?!? Also more walks in the country, sadly one of the kids (not ours Thankfully) got bitten by a big dog on the face she seems ok and they don’t seem worried about rabies and it was not deep so no stitches, later on Darcy found a snake thankfully it was dead. The vehicles they drive, and tyres with wire showing, pick ups which look like they have been in a scarp yard for 5 years with 20 plus bags of cement in crawling up roads I find difficult to walk up, it is crazy!! What else can I say but the cockroaches in the microwave keep growing and multiplying!

Well we will be leaving soon we hope to go to the Bay islands next week for a few days, so google Roatan it is a beautiful place opps chip pan about to explode, good ole chips but not with egg tonight but chicken que rico!!

After our little break we are back here to say our good byes So Sad I hate it! We travel up to Guatemala City via El Salvador then fly up to LA for 2 days then on to Raratonga in the Cook Islands then on to NZ for December.God bless Take Care

Hamish and Co.

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Hi all..things are going well and yet another week passed.woke up this morning and wanted to do something English so had marmite on toast..(bought at home…from my mum for flora who loves it) .and a boiled egg..yummy!never short of eggs round here..chickens everywhere.Eva lent us an abba cd listening to ..the winner takes it all..nearly crying what a saddo…think its one of the most beautifully written songs..on my diverse list of all time greats!this week was our wedding anniversary(15yrs!..wow.).We went to a most gorgeous restaurant overlooking Tegucigalpa..dead romantic and fantastic food…(great company?)Had a really special evening..followed by doing our weekly shop in the city..because we had the use of a car..beats lugging it up the mountain on a bus!honestly..the practicalities of life..it was like going to the Ritz then nipping to Tesco for tea bags on the way home!!we can still laugh about these things.Eva looked after the children they had a fab time..certainly weren’t asleep when we returned..but happy and well.This week has given us all aching muscles..walking for hours each day with different groups of kids up mountains we live at the height of ben nevis then walk another 2 hours up!you can feel it in your lungs and your legs!but gorgeous and have seen some lovely views.Had a good day representing Britain at joshuas school(Leonis son……as I`v said before..shes looking for a husband..but only millionaires need apply)We painted union jacks on our faces made bonfire toffee..and had a lovely day!everyone is cold at the moment..I have a fleece on tonight..but its still 70 degrees but with a cold wind..the Hondurans would have a shock in Britain in November!singing at church inTeguc tomorrow..and going to a friends house early for lunch should be nice..off to the finca church tonight just made a chilli for everyone..for the prayer time after church..should warm everyone up!Hamish not impressed I turned on the water in the kitchen when he was having a shower ..it turns the shower off..no water pressure..he was shouting and I didn’t hear him!you also cant flush the loo if you want water!!the joys!allthe children are fine..Darcy thankfully on the mend after e-coli and amoebas diagnosed in her tummy…antibiotics have worked wonders..she is much better now.Best go hopefully send photos tried last week but connection so bad as thunder storms !!so slow to send..hopefully this week.Love to all God bless Rachel and clan.

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Well..its Sunday morning..I have just microwaved my cornflakes !!!those who are nearsest and dearest to me are not a bit surprised by that information….but I should be having a great morning….had a bit of a lie in..the children stayed at Evas house last night..they wanted to go and sleep there to catch scorpians!!they were so excited..we packed them off with their pyjamas..a night in the hut in the woods!!of course I was a bit worried..especially as it’s a very wet rainy season..but we enjoyed a night of real rest..not being pushed around in the middle of the night by our 3(especially Flora).We watched a film on the laptop and had a lovely evening.!Wanted to show you some pictures of a walk we went on yesterday up the mountains with the older boys.We went to one of the workers houses..she is called Mecedes..but the kids call her grandma!She is such a hard worker she sets off at 5 every day to get down the mountain in pitch black..there is no electricity there yet….and works 2 jobs…washing with no machine..and tons of other real hard labour..she says she has never had to have a day off sick.She is fab with all the kids always has time and patience for them..the kids love her.She then prays in the church she helped to build..(how I don’t know…she has nothing!)she prays at 3 in the morning!!and says its like fire!!her whole life is work and service for others..no leisure time….she is an amazing woman.I`m sure this is why the church of Latin America is growing so rapidly..faithful people praying.We took coke and crisps for everyone and she had made spagetti bol for us all..fantastic!!it was a day of eating yesterday..pancakes in the morning..sandwich at lunch..spaghetti 2 hours later..then I had friends from the village round cos they wanted me to make spaghetti for them!!(more!!) they brought a bottle of wine and ice cream..then after we dropped off the kids with Eva returned for a meeting with everyone concerning plans for school for the kids..and guess what more food..typical Honduran delights then Hamish whipped out a chocolate bar he had bought for me as a surprise…Always room for chocolate I say!!yummy it was like a mars bar…but as not used to it here felt a little sick!..we felt like it was Christmas all day…Vicar of diblys Christmas I think we should fast today.I`m playing keyboard in Teguc tnight..will enjoy that ..it’s a real break from the routine which really helps me!hopefully retrieve our children soon and walk to the market to buy the most fabulous bread!love to you all God bless you..Rachel and Cl

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