The only way for me to get time to blog!

Hi all - this is the first opportunity I have had since we've been in India to write my two-pen'orth! I have achieved it by being up all night with the runs - and being unable to go to the slum today! Life has been going at a pretty relentless pace since we have been here - but it so good to be back.
It is a fairly daunting task taking 14 people out to work in a team in the place we have come to love - the slums of Delhi. What will they think? Will they hate it? Will they work as a team? Well this team have been first class! Right from the outset we have gelled, and had so much fun together. Everybody has got stuck in and all have contributed something special to the whole:
Dennis - our Project Manager who has organised us all
Laura - who has been an absolute star with her mural painting
Steve - who has similarly kept his mural painting skills under a bushel
Riina - who has painted tirelessly
Tina - who has also been a skilled artist, and who has been excellent with the slum kids
Nick - who has been a brilliant ice-breaker with the kids
Neil - underwater mural painter extroadinaire
Val - an all-rounder, never seen slacking, and prepared to ride the bumpy slide
Sue - Another great painter and instigator of our musical masterpiece - "the wheels on the bus..."
Nigel - ...well did you know he could draw and paint fish? AND support Kiran in banking matters
Tim - who has been happy painting, encouraging slum kids and teaching docs
Alan - like me a paint slosher rather than artist - but with such panache!
Julie - last of all who has confidently led the team through Delhi airport, and is frankly "in her element" when in Delhi's slums

Thanks guys 'n' gals!

Anyway I am feeling better and will hopefully be able to get to the prayer meeting in Kusumpur Pahadi this afternoon, followed by the visit to the British High Commission later - what an honour!

Bye for now!