100 ABSTRACTS - NUMBER 89

We had a great service at church this morning with several people sharing different things. It was good to be together but however good Zoom may be, it’s not quite the same as actually being together, so we hope that before too much longer we will be able to go back to the Community Centre where we worship each week.

We have decided not to go out for a drive today because it’s much too warm so I prepared a quick lunch and we found a shady spot in the garden we sat enjoying the garden and all the beauty around us.

Whilst having our lunch, we spotted a red kite circling above us and it was flying quite low. Then we saw another one and then to our surprise another one – Mr HCB wonders if it could be parents with a young kite teaching it how to hunt and search for its own food. The sky is blue, there are some white fluffy clouds, and it’s good to be out enjoying the beauties of nature. 

I looked around the garden for one of nature’s own abstracts and found this lovely stone. When our boys were small we used to collect stones from different places - often from beaches - two at the most, I hasten to add - and bring them home and I’m sure that this is one of them.  However, I have no idea where it came from but it seems to be an amalgamation of several different stones so obviously the stresses and strains of life in the sea somewhere has caused several smaller stones to amalgamate to become one stone. 

It certainly makes a good abstract and this is number 89 in my 100 abstract challenge for the Mamie Martin Fund, which as you know by now is a fund which helps to provide good secondary education for impoverished girls in North Malawi.  

TELEZA is a girl who was helped with funding from the Mamie Martin Fund for her secondary education.  Her parents were unable to pay the whole amount of fees when she was at Elangeni Secondary School, so she received a bursary from the Fund.  Teleza did very well in her Malawi School Certificate of Education in 2017. 

After leaving secondary school, Teleza studied at Lusibiro Computer School at Karonga learning basics in computing.  She very much appreciates all the help given to her by the Mamie Martin Fund throughout her years at secondary school and says she would not be where she is now were it not for that help.

I hope you are all enjoying the sunshine and have remembered to slather on the suncream - although we have one shady spot in the garden, having just come in to post my Blip, it’s much cooler indoors.

“Technique and ability alone 
     do not get you to the top; 
          it is the willpower 
               that is most important.” 
Junko Tabei - the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest

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