Come Join Me

PREFACE Last night as I watched a BBC film of the historic river Nile I was impressed by a remark of Stanley after meeting Dr. Livingstone. So impressed was he with the doctors dedication that he felt a deep urge to continue the great work of discovering this wonderful part of creation. It made me realise the tremendous importance of Africa and the need for its resources to be nurtured and cared for; so much of life there is dependent on the tropical rain forests that are responsible for feeding the ground with essential nutrients, and are also a huge factor in the rainfall that fills the great lakes, Victoria, Tanganyika, and Prince Albert and Edward which in turn supply the Congo and Nile rivers. In the case of the Nile, it runs through nearly four thousand miles of desert yet never runs dry! To view the Nile as a whole it can readily be seen that this four thousand mile monster crosses man made borders wily nilly as if to emphasise to us humans to share this bounty of life. E

Rather annoyingly I have noticed that all my ideas come to light just as I'm about to go to sleep or in the really early hours of the morning. Which is a pain as I'm far too comfortable to get up and my note book or laptop. I recall just over a year ago I would keep a note book by my bed because of this fact. But new habits die rather quickly. So the plan is, if I'm not getting up to go to work; I'll jump straight on my computer and write....DAY 1 Successful. Skimming through my previous blog posts I went back to the beginning, where I wrote that I will be posting some of my father's writing. We'll I'm not going to lie, it took me ages to copying everything to computer. Not because there was too much of it,I probably could have done it in a week if I cancelled everything. But because I was a little lazy and I also have to go to work, let's not forget you also have to be in the right mind frame to put pen to paper/ fingers to keys. Well anyhow,

I am currently lying in bed after spending most of the day writing emails begging for references. After a meeting the other day with Next Stop LAX, I am compiling all the documents that I need to apply for my US visa. I hate asking people for things, but if I'm going to take this step, I'm must drag myself back to my laptop and carry on with the emails. And that's the easiest part of the process. Wish me luck. xxx