Two 18 year old German girls have turned up to volunteer at S’s centre following A’s departure. Their mother also…

Today I went to see some children’s homes, inland (we had to get a ferry across the lagoon) in an…

 The picture is from faculty.ucc.edu I have just had to compose a long piece to my Sri Lankan VSO boss….

As I have given up on the idea of getting other volunteer company I took myself off to the National…

As I mentioned in my Cameroon blog this week, I am not that keen on taking photos of people as…

This week has really been about settling in to Batticaloa on my own. Some guide books refer to the place…

If you are reading this on Christmas day, Happy Christmas!  Thank you for being such a dedicated reader of my…

Stray dogs are a big issue in Sri Lanka although local people don’t generally bother about them. Of course I…

So Margaret Thatcher has died ….. a Sri Lanka book of condolence email came through today. There is a little…

The paperwork I came here on said that I would be working In Batticaloa (lots of Non Governmental Organisations, NGOs…