Yesterday I was rather surprised to find a metal post suddenly appear through the lounge wall a few inches behind the TV. The workmen next door had obviously not thought very carefully about the thickness of the wall and had come straight through! A little surprising seeing as we are in a very old mud brick house with extremely thick walls. Anyway, after the man in the shop below trying to help (he wasn’t much help as he had been drinking), the landlady arriving and the workmen going in and out a few times, they managed to knock the post back through. There is a still a hole in the wall though. What made it more complicated was that I was looking after our friends Ian and Juliana’s two boys as well as our two at the time, and after the first post appeared it sounded as though another one was on its way so there was a lot of frantic running backwards and forwards to tell the workmen to stop! Fortunately Pip, who has just moved in with us for a few weeks, was around and could help watch the kids. 
Today as I was coming back from the children’s home I was fortunate (I thought!) to find a taxi who could take me down to the main road. This is not a very common occurrence as the home is up a rough track where there aren’t many taxis. However, as this one tried to turn round, it became obvious that it wasn’t going to start. It seemed as though if we could push it to face the right direction then we could at least roll down, as the track is on a slight slope. So the taxi driver and I got out and just about managed to push it round. We then rolled some of the way down until we came to another flat part where we came to a halt. A guy working in a nearby field helped push and we got a little further. Then we stopped again. This time another taxi driver came to the rescue. He got in the car while my driver pushed. He managed to start the car, so drove a little way down the track. Meanwhile my diver caught up, jumped in and off we went! The other driver ran back up the road to retrieve his car and passengers! And after all the pushing I still paid the guy as I felt sorry for him! The road up to the children’s home is proving quite eventful as a few weeks ago on the same road, Lucy and I had to dodge rally cars on some sort of cross-Peru race. They had raced as far as the village near the main road, then came slowly through to a check point just under a mile from the home. From there they were set off at 2 minute intervals. There were a few policemen blowing whistles, but really you needed to either walk through the fields by the side of the track, or run for about 90 seconds down the track and jump into the ditch when you heard the next engine! It was the most dangerous event I had ever seen!
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