So, last night we went to Carnivore. You are set up with sides and a flag, the staff bring round skewers of meat and basically fill up your plate until you surrender and lower your flag.

The meat was tasty, included quite a few exotic cuts such as ostrich meatballs and crocodile, but I think the ones I enjoyed the most were the spare ribs and the beef.

The grill area is lit to make it look as evil as possible.

On our way out, I realised I had failed on the all-feet-photo score since Turkey, and as Jake left early hours, this was pretty much our last chance.

This also gives us the chance to show off our lovely new shoes, gifts from the staff at Excel Emmanuel – Jake, Ken and I wore them to go out.

The staff also gave us beaded wristbands – they read “THANKS PAR”. My plan is to not wear mine to visit the schools as it doesn’t look like it will wash easily. Expect to see it on my return!

This morning we researched nutrition so that we can tweak the food the children are receiving in order that they have all the nutrients they need, in particular iron and vitamin A. One sweet potato per child per week more than gives them enough vitamin A, but our difficulty is that the Kenyans see sweet potato as a breakfast food, and regard the idea of putting it into stew as bizarre beyond belief.

We headed to the schools to try to see lunchtime at Lizpal, but we were too late. Then we pottered through glad kids where the children were all very pleased to see us, and then on to a meeting at Excel. We discussed nutrition with the head teachers, the Vish and Emma headed off to try to find how we can acquire fee worming tablets. We know that the WHO have an agreement with GSK to supply enough tablets for free for the whole population of Kenya, but finding out how to get them is proving non-trivial.

I stayed at Excel and went through some more computer stuff with Mary and Titus – I’ve set up a spreadsheet to help them track school fees income, so the next few days will be spent making sure they understand how it works, and how to extend the data the pivot table covers. Fingers crossed I have the skills to help them understand… Next step is expenditure, including teachers salaries and water bills, etc.

Part way through the afternoon it started raining. It wasn’t raining too hard when we left Ndongo, but by the time we got off at Galleria, where we were due to meet the others, it was hammering down properly tropically.

The route home was very muddy, and mercifully we were offered a lift by a priest with a big car. Sadly a new trench has appeared in the road outside the lodge, so we had to walk the last 100 metres or so in pretty much ankle deep mud. And it’s still raining very hard. We can expect to be very muddy by the end of tomorrow. I’m predicting that Glastonbury got nothing on the mud we will encounter…