A Typical Day for the Gin and Tonic Team

• Wake at dawn and visit our own inoffensive long drop.
• Get the solar panel out.
• Do our stretches and sun salutations.
• Have a quick wash in a bowl.
• Breakfast of sweet black tea, fruit of the day with raw peanuts and wild honey.
• Shut Peggy inside and head over the field to the church for the morning workshop.
• Wait anything up to an hour for the women to arrive.
• Begin with soul lifting drumming, singing and dancing.
• Discuss and unpack topics, such as freedom, wisdom, fear or courage for the first part.
• Manage the sewing supplies and assist the women with their creations for the second part.
• End the session with expressions of thanks and more drumming and singing.
• Home for lunch of orange maize flour "mani-cookies," palatable with Marmite.
• Do a chore or two and prepare for the next session.
• Say goodbye to Pegs again and back over the field to repeat the morning workshop with a new group, desperately trying to keep the energy up under a tin roof in the afternoon heat.
• 4.30 – pack up, dash home and gather our stuff together.
• Head to the river for washing of clothes and sweaty, dusty bodies – good for a 3-4km round trip sniff, walk and swim for Peggy.
• Dash home for a shared beer sun downer, sitting in our hard wood, hand carved chairs by 6.00 for our regular flying performance by the resident pair of Pennant-winged Nightjars.
• Stoke up the charcoal brazier to cook supper – much fanning.
• Fall onto our bamboo beds – generally asleep by 8.30pm.
• Whew! Was tough being us!