Daughter No.2 returned for Christmas from Vietnam, where she is Country Director for MAG (Mines Advisory Group), a humanitarian mine action NGO which not only clears land mines but also trains and employs the local population to  do so themselves. She travels all over Vietnam overseeing their many projects and, when she has time, she tries […]

          I intended to post photos of these Christmas tree decorations before Christmas but, a full house of family (including a tiny visiting kitten and the cat of indeterminate age who adopted us a couple of Christmases ago), five church services and the sorting of an obscene amount of recycling, has […]