Dominique, Anna-Louise, James, Philly, Tish, Bart, Kayleigh, Bart and Louise
The perfect Raleigh picture...
Dion and Adam
The group in the school where they sleep
Nick flexing his muscles...
The boys carrying the planks back to the village
The stunning view of La Carona from the hill
The local children...
Alpha nine medic Anna-Louise hard at work planing the floorboards
Kayleigh also hard at work, sporting her beautiful leopard-print head scarf, which is unfortunately hiding the famous sea-fringe (sorry guys - i know you all love it so much!)
Bart working on the floorboards and Adam taking a well deserved rest...
Alpha nine on their finished floor! L-R Bart O, Dion, Bart LDJ, Nick, Adam, Kayleigh, Sophia, Roz, Louise, Bella, Ivan, William, Tish and Dominique
Pics of Alpha one to follow shortly!
Oke Bart Ruigrok , amazing Alpha nine maakt ons op een relaxete zat. ochtend helemaal enthousiast,Jullie zien er goed en lekker bezig uit.Als ik die foto's zie zou ik ook wel mee willen doen.
ReplyDeleteGr.ouwe dad ( en je moeder natuurlijk)
Thank you for the fabulastic photies Blogmeister!
ReplyDeleteEveryone looks so happy, maybe you have all discovered the secret formula for eternal happiness; hard manual labour + beautiful location x lots of new friends(-sea fringe)= :o)
My Darling Pooch, will you ever forgive me or your gorgeous friends for causing 'sea fringe-gate'? 'Sea fringe'...'humidity fringe'...and now 'no fringe'. Don't hide your fringe away my darling, learn to love it in all its beautiful guises...embrace the fringe! Hehehehe!
I wish you, Alpha 9, and all your new found carpentry skills were here now; Ste's new furniture is due to be delivered any minute and I have a weekend of 'flat pack hell' to look forward to (my punishment for embarrassing you on the blog I fear)!
No family news to report, however I found my laptop keys covered in big fat paw prints and what looks like doggy drool this morning! It's all a tad mysterious...any theories??!
Keep up the good work Pooch, Alpha 9, and the Blogmeister of course x x x
Alpha 9 William
ReplyDeleteDarling Huhu baobao, sorry that I have not been writing to you lately. A hectic time to prepare Hugo to go back to London. At 15:00 yesterday (Friday), we still don't know when to depart due to Ayi's visa. After a frantic round of calling contacts in the embassy, Ayi was granted visa at 16:00. By now (21:00 Sat), we have 11 luggages ready to go tomorrow morning at 9:00. Simon will come to help and also collect your computer and charger to take back to London at the end of March. Hugo sensed the atmosphere, and was on a high these few days and could not have behaved better while we were all occupied with different tasks. Did you realise tomorrow is 8 March, three years sharp onward, Hugo will be back to 51 ET! I cannot help being constantly amazed with how much we are led with the loving hands of our good Lord! I had a big party to go to last week, and 10 minutes before departure, I changed my mind and started to prepare the trip back to London, until 2:00 next morning. Everyone is shocked here, since I cut short the stay here so much. But more importantly, my darling baobao, I noticed on the photo that you had a wounded ankle, which I do hope is not too serious and painful. There are so many people whom I have talked to are inspired by you all and would like to learn from your spirit. It is not easy, as I can see from the photos, but all of you were so courageous and persevering. Well done you and your group! I shall write to you again soon next week, my darling. With so much love and loads of hugs, miss you so much, Mum
Hi Bliss
ReplyDeleteAmber got her postcard this morning-loved the picture. Read the blog that Alpha seven were going to viist the volcano -WOW! Hope you had a great time. Hoping for some pictures of alpha seven soon, seen pictures of Alha 1 and nine-they were great.
Missing you loads
Love Mum,Dad,Amber x :) :) :)
To Sophie, Alpha Four
ReplyDeleteP, WW! BB! Only a week now before I head off to Yemen and I've organised
nothing, oh dear. I hope you got my last message, I had issues on top of issues
sending it. All's well here though I can't wait for the term to end. I hope
water polo in the river and all other crazy shenanigans are going well, still
haven't seen any photos yet, maybe soon. Got your first three letters yesterday
which made me very happy. It looks like you've got one of the best projects. Henna might be coming down to oxford today.
Five weeks now...
All my love,
Alex X
hi Dominique,wonderfull to the pictures with your suntanned happy face.Although we do not hear much of you,this is proof you are having a great time.My goodness,these planks are seriously big and heavy,how are the muscles,must be tough work ! The result,the floor looks good (wish we had that light floor at home).
ReplyDeleteMathieu came back from snowshoeingcamp,while you sweat in the tropics,he stayed in a log cabin with -35 in the Rockies and had at least 2 meters of snow !
Love from Calgary,mama
Dear Tom, Here we are in Ponteland for a few days mainly to see Josie in A.M.N's.D. The production last night was super and was theatre in the round, with the audience around the sides of St Robert's Hall. Tonight E and R have gone to see it. We all had a lovely tea together and talked about the marvellous time you are all having, heard about the marvellous letters you have been sending home and then we came to have a look at all the photos on the blog.We hope you are taking millions of other photos because the whole place looks as if it has been built for adventures and all your mates seem so handsome and attractive and absolutely full of life. We hope you are also getting lots of opportunities por hablar espanol. Lots of Love from your Bromborough elders
ReplyDeleteDear Fieldbase Comms team,
ReplyDeleteJust want to thank you again for the luxury of enlargeable pics and the captions and comments you put with them. Enlarging the pics makes us feel we are in the pictures with you - can almost feel the heat! Hope it's not a huge extra effort fot you, but it makes a great difference to us.
Happy Mama x
Hi Bliss
ReplyDeleteHope all is going well, your trip to the volcano sounds amazing. Missing you loads,and counting down the days now. lots of love from us all. Dad xxxx if this is a duplicate its the crazy blog - errors everytime!!!
H Bliss
ReplyDeleteWhat's been happening here in the Godden household- not a lot really. We've all been missing you a lot today - Dad said it won't be long now to me- well it feels like a long time to me. I know it's not but I just miss having my Bliss around. Here are some reasons I miss you Bliss, here goes;
.You make me laugh
.Girlie chats
.You make me great cups of tea
.I miss seeing your wonderful Tom and our chats
.No-one to ask,"Do I look fat in this"?
.You saying "no you look lovely"
.No one to watch desperate housewives with !
.Advice before going to h/dresses and noticing when I've been.
.Reading your magazines and catching up on who's too fat or who's too skinny-always seem to be the same topic every week!
.Our debates - where we put the world to rigts (different to our girly chats)!
.Everything about you!
Bliss I love you so much , I can't wait to hear from you and I hope phase two is going well.
Sending lots of {{HUGS}}, forgot to put that on the list of things I miss!!
Love you lots,miss you loads and think of you everday.
Mumxxx
P.s Even miss the messy bedroom and nagging you about it- gosh I must be missing you lots !! :>)
Sophie, alpha four,
ReplyDeleteone last thing. you got in! your mum told me today, you're going to N definitely. I'm so glad. Congrats. Chris, Naz and Kruger all really miss you, as do I.
Alex X
To Ros, in Alpha nine,
ReplyDeleteGreat to get your postcard, arrived only one day after Your fathers birthday, which was pretty good timing.We went for a meal at a Chinese restaurant on the Walworth Rd, around the corner from Chloe's.It was very nice, and a change to have Chinese.Think the photos of Alpha 9 are great, especially the one in the window, and the one of you all standing on the finished floor.Chloe was on Medical take at Lewisham A&E last Saturday, if she was on surgical she would have met Raj, who fell over a Unichem box, and dislocated his elbow!!He's all plastered up now.Chloe's up in Cambridge this weeekend with David.You'll be pleased to hear Boo remains alive(if only just as she was sick in the hall last night!) and Brian is as daft as ever.Take care, lots of love Mum and Dad xxxx
Hi Field base
ReplyDeleteCould we please have a update on the blog today-wonderful photos of alpha groups- but it is hard when your loved one is not in that group. Daily blogs are great for parents and loved ones to know how things are- so pretty please daily blogs! Do apprecaite everything you do do though.
Hello Calum (with Alpha 8) - G.Gordon wants to know the secret of getting these walls up so quickly - looks like you're all working very hard. Like the sound of the garden and looking forward to seeing some photos.
ReplyDeleteRory's hand is now in a very 'respectable' plaster which I'm sure gets him lots of attention!
I'm off to look after Charlotte again this week - will show her how to send you a blog. Miss you loads when I'm up there, but can hardly believe you're half-way through the programme already.
Hope you got the Rugby mag. I sent. Big Hugs from Totnes Two
Adam (Alpha 9)
ReplyDeleteJust seen Alpha 9 pictures. You are obviously working hard,and smiling.. well done. Now you have learnt a new skill of carpentry any chance you can do our shelves when you get back home?
The landscape looks amazing.
Everyone is ok here in the UK.
Dad and Mum
PS the bins need doing..
hi Dominique,I am starting to get real jealous that you are having this great weather.We did not even go out to Sunshine this weekend,it's freaking cold again ! Miss you shoveling the drive for me....lots of snow still.
ReplyDeletePapa is still working hard in the basement.We have bought a bookcase at Ikea and it fits in perfect.To complete it all there will be a soundsurroundsystem installed.Soon you and Mathieu have a great room to entertain with friends.
We are finally botteling the wine today ! We already started drinking from the big container and it turned out really nice.John and Aukje agreed on that and help us out drinking....
The blog told us you guys are still transporting those huge planks,I am proud of you all you guys and gals are achieving.Cheers to Alpha 9,love from Calgary,mama
hey Dominique, turns out the fat tire race at COP is a 4x race in the snow, should be sweet with a junior category.snow, we snowshoeed in such deep snow, at least a foot of powder, then a hard layer, which if you sank through made your leg dissappear with snowshoe and all in the snow, it was like there was nothing there at all. i got some nice pictures, we woke up with -35 one morning, thinking it was warmer, all of us thought it was around -10 to -15 i stepped outside with snow pants, boots, and long underwear to take some pictures with a crystal clear skies, and the most amazing shade of blue. hope you have better weather than i did, although that day was amazing, we are definitely going snowshoeing together to get to some powder snowboarding spots, after we take avalanche training, which is incredibly hard. enjoy carrying floorboards, its carpets over here. cheers, Mathieu
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ReplyDeleteHello from england!! I'm here and its so great! Been thinking about you, look at the blog updates all the time. Sure looks like you are having a great time. You'll be nice and tan once you get back! I hardly recongnized you without your shaggy dog hair cut. I like the new look though.
I've been traveling around southern England a bit, and statring in April I'll be going to the rest of Europe. Can't wait to get to Holland!
Make sure you stay in touch once you get back,
love from england,
Melissa
Dear Blogmeister
ReplyDeleteWhat an excellent way of keeping us all involved with the expedition. We had hoped we might receive occasional letters, perhaps an email, over the 10 weeks: it is just amazing to be able to get regular reports several times a week! I notice I am starting to check the blog morning and evening, having spent years deploring my Venturer's need for constant electronic checking... so I am learning what it is like to really feel anxious for e-contact. Perhaps I'll be more sympathetic with my young people after this insight?
You are doing a great job, and the recent posts with commentaries and enlargeable pictures are even more delicious.
Thank you for looking after us distant supporters, and please thank everyone who is enabling our loved ones to have such a life-affirming, challenging experience.
Faz! i miss thee dearly- mine and clarkons bdays have not been the same without you, some outrageously short fancy dress and the union. You look like ur working hard- being all pratical and stuff. Still havent seen any monkey pics- very dissapointing! Have fun my lovely. Much love skett xxxx
ReplyDeleteP.s. Hi mummy Farnell :-)
Hee BART van LDJ, the one and only! Lekker ding! Hoe is het met je?? Je bent hard aan het klussen zie ik. Die spierballen komen wel van pas.... Hoop heel erg dat je het helemaal fantastisch vindt. Hier alles goed. Hard aan de slag met mn onderzoek, you know me... dus heerlijk af en toe van mom en dad een linkje doorgestuurd te krijgen met leuke pics van jou en je groep. Ga misschien mee naar Boston trouwens, naar Joosie, zou wel heel leuk zijn! Jou gaan we helaas niet bezoeken... muuuhhh. Dus geef ik je op deze manier maar een denkbare KUS en hoop ik steeds dat je geniet als je onder de sterren op je veldbedje ligt na een dag hard werken, WOW, lijkt me tof! Veel plezier op je groot avontuur!! Dikke kus en liefs van je zusje. XXXX Grietje
ReplyDeleteTo Dion Poelgeest,
ReplyDeleteHi Jhonny, alles onder controle zie ik al. Je bent weer wat opgeknapt en laat je longen binnen?
Intussen zijn wij verhuisd naar Brummen. Opa Loek is al weer wat beter ondanks dat hij niety meer lopen kan. Je moet de groeten hebben van hem. Ik zou zeggen werk ze daar en groetjes,
Erik En Jet
Hi James, Greetings from New Zealand. See you in August - assuming you will be back for the big family celebrations!! Love Erica
ReplyDeleteHello Adam (Alpha 9)
ReplyDeleteSo you can pick things up from the floor!
To put your mind at rest we are on top of the Uni stuff - and you have been called up for Jury Service! We have asked them to defer, you have a good enough reason.
We know that you are not here:
a. The food bill doesn't leave me breathless
b. The bins get put out at a decent time
c. There is space on the sofa
d. The weights are silent
Mum x
Hoi Dion, Vandaag was mijn laatste skidag. Prachtig weer gehad, maar heel veel wind. De pistes waren daarom af en toe boven gesloten. Morgen rij ik weer naar huis. Leuke foto,s en volgens mij heb je veel plezier. Hoop snel je stem te horen. Dikke kus van je moeder xx
ReplyDeleteAan Bart Overakker ,Alpha 9
ReplyDeleteHallo lekkerste,
Ik begin steeds jaloerser en jaloerser te worden op je! Ik wou even zeggen dat ik je mis en dat ik je onwijs veel plezier wens !
En ik zie je 11 april !
Dikke kus Sanne
hay bella i think its alpha 9
ReplyDeletehope all is going well i can see you been working hard , there is not one day that passes when i dont think of our group and all the fun we had lol hope your new group is just as fun keep up the good work babe miss ya amy xxxx
Happy Birthday James Burnham for 28th March. Enjoying following the Blogs, all seems to be going well. All is well here. Love Mum and Dad x
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