And now to the BIG NEWS: Fortune, Allah or Divine Providence (maybe the same thing?) is smiling on me and Hotel Djenne Djenno: the money needed to bring the electricity in is being provided by a big commission I have just landed with the National Trust at Mottisfont Abbey in deepest rural Hampshire- I am to paint a floorcloth (or a painted carpet see www.sarinfloorcloths.com) I have changed my flight back to Mali and will stay a month longer , lodging in a comfy country inn. I long to be in Mali again, but this is too good to turn down!