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2-2 away to Colchester, the mighty reds just can't stop..............crawling slowly up the table.

I have just read through my last posting and the spelling is awful, I am sure there is something wrong with this keyboard!

Oh, I nearly forgot to tell you it was the third day of Ramadan today and the first workday, so I thought I would see how it felt, so I had nothing to eat or drink all day until we got home this evening and the sun had gone down, then I guzzled a cold can of 7Up with great relish. Made another fine dinner of soup and the veggie dish.

What a segway, I could have been a DJ, the way I subtly lured you into my veggie story.Let me explain the eating arrangements here in the house, in fact let me explain the house. We have 4 bedrooms and 2 bathroms in the house, 3 beds and a bath upstairs and then downstairs we have 1 bed, 1 bath, 1 lounge, a kitchen and a dining room. Rachel has the room and bathroom downstairs, three of us healthy lads are upstairs and then there are two more men in the bedrooms in the garden annexe. We are also building two more rooms in the garden for extra guests. Did I tell you one of the guys in the annexe stepped on a scorpion in his room the other night, lucky he had his slippers on. You see, all you tough guys out there, slippers can save your life!!

We have a big fridge and a cook comes in every other day, cooks meals and leaves them in the fridge and we can help ourselves. However, the only thing non meat in the fridge for the first week was salad and chocolate, so I became a bit of a salad fiend, (might have eaten a square or two of choccie as well) but this week we have had a rather yummy soup which I can only describe as Spicy Parsnip and a baked veggie dish, all rather yummy after a long days fasting. Not sure if I can keep this up, but I will give it a go.

Finally, we come to the minefields, oh and a discussion on why mountain bikes are much more fun than land rovers, so we shall have to visit that next time. To all those in The Row, hope all is well and village life goes on as normal. You know, I wish I had a picture of our water pump. None of the Afghans here believe we get our water from a water pump in the back garden. I may have missed the small detail of the piped water as well, but hey, why should facts get in the way of a good story!!! What I need is a picture of Jill filing her bucket, now that would get them all thinking!!!!!!

Have I told you that when I go to the ISAF HQ (they have the sexy cash machine), my guard has to wait outside in the street. I mean how unfair is that, we are slightly outgunned if we picked a fight!!!!

I defy anyone to find a spelling mitsake in this episode.

I think next time we should discuss "So what is humanitarian about Mine Action" Thats what we call it by the way, HMA, Humanitarian Mine Action.

BFN