Joshi loves his Blantyre life

Hello

Since our trip to the bush we have been staying in Blantyre getting more settled in. This week we are sadly saying goodbye to our friends Will and Meg who have been here for the last year. It is one of the hard things about living abroad – you make wonderful new friends and then say bye to them after what always seems such a short time. But Will and Meg live two streets from us in Queen’s park, so we look forward to catching up when we are back!

We are getting excited about Helena coming back after her long trip to the UK, and Roshina coming out to start a year here replacing Meg, and Joshi is especially excited about Granny Lou and Grandpa Stephen arriving on Wednesday for a 2 week trip – we will update again when we have some pictures of our travels around Malawi with them (diesel permitting). I am getting things together slowly to start my study when I go back to work from maternity leave, and Gav is working hard getting the kidney services up and running here. There were supposed to be more demonstrations here this week, but they were cancelled at the last minute, it seems due to various pressures being applied on the groups. But the causes of the unhappiness and unrest that triggered the original demonstrations on the 20^th of July remain so I don’t think it will be long before something else happens. This weekend the President Bingu dissolved his cabinet and assumed all the posts himself, so we shall see what happens next – we live in interesting times…………….

In the meantime here are a few pics of Joshi around Blantyre – he especially loves going for a walk around the neighbourhood, although we get a lot of stares as not many people here carry their baby on their tummy in a baby bjorn………….

Lots of love

Emma Gavin and Joshi J