Diary April 11th Monday 2011
Greetings
to you all from Romania. Phil and I have arrived and are
delighted to be here again. To our delight Flori is
better than we expected – no fatter only 37 kilos, but looks a bit better with
slightly longer hair. She sounds better and seems better but she is very frail
and needed help to go downstairs after she came to inspect our bedroom.
To our
delight we found Tom is here from USA. We met him once before when he came to
help Alex with a building project with another American called Steve. But
usually they come in the spring and we generally miss them. Phil’s sense of
humour and Tom’s go together and there were numerous raucous hoots and guffaws
of laughter as they got going.
There have
been some changes here at Casa Mabel and I haven’t seen all the ladies yet but
there is time for that tomorrow. What was lovely was the joy and delight when
they saw us – we were thoroughly kissed and embraced and blessed.
Soon after
we arrived we had the sad news by text message that one of our most elderly
volunteers has died. Heather came to Romania with us once and worked very hard
for Mustard Seed packing on a Tuesday afternoon.
Michel and
Thomas are on the road driving the aid trailer. They had planned to leave on
Saturday afternoon but Michel’s wife had an accident and is in hospital now.
However his family decided he must go so he and his son Thomas left at 5 am
this morning from St Malo. They were delayed as the
brakes on the trailer got dangerously hot just before Paris, so a trip to a
garage was unavoidable. It proved to be the handbrake caught on the front axle
and so causing the front left brakes to be on; amazingly Michel managed to get
the repair done free of charge. But it delayed them. They are mid way across
Germany now and have stopped for the night. We think they will not arrive till
Wednesday morning.