Monday 05.05.2013

Breakfast with Buffalo. A fairly unusual way to spend your 60th birthday perhaps but for one of our party (Marcia) that`s exactly what she found herself doing on Sunday.

Kelly`s predictions about numbers increasing exponentially during the week proved correct: by our last morning we had the best part of 300 children arriving for their holiday club activities with the Bookbus.

With a bit of blue-sky thinking and some extra preparation on Thursday night, 180 bear paws were magically transformed into around 280 cat paws for using after a reading of Cats,Cats and More Cats.

The queues went round the block,



the demand for paws outstripped supply so more were hurriedly created,



carefully coloured in



and worn with pride.



Time for a break after all that hard work and it was somehow reassuring to see the boys pushing the roundabout too fast for some of the girls who screamed with a mixture of fear and delight and begged them to stop, which of course they didn`t. Some things really are the same the world over.



Meanwhile for the BookBus volunteers, sadly leaving Zweilopili School for the last time there was nevertheless a weekend off to look forward to, starting on Friday with a visit to Marimba market,





followed by a drink while watching the sunset over the Zambezi before a meal at Olga`s,where not only do the profits go toward supporting vulnerable youngsters in Livingstone but they also happen to make the best Pizza in town. (www.olgasproject.com)

The rest of the weekend was all about 60th birthdays, a night in the bush and an enormity of elephants. But that will have to wait for the next post.