Not all pages are quite so liberally sprinkled with either - I chose to take a photo of this chapter because it had so many!
mardi 14 janvier 2020
Stars and letters
I was very happy just before Christmas when I managed to finish working on the glossary and the footnotes of our Bible. The finished text of the beginning of Hebrews 9 now looks like this, with stars marking glossary entries and blue letters for footnotes:
Not all pages are quite so liberally sprinkled with either - I chose to take a photo of this chapter because it had so many!
Not all pages are quite so liberally sprinkled with either - I chose to take a photo of this chapter because it had so many!
mercredi 8 janvier 2020
The end is nigh
We set 2020 as our deadline for the project back in 2011, so it is hardly a surprise to us that we're getting ready to leave. I have a habit of trying to sort through our "stuff" regularly, so as not to accumulate too much, but as a family of five we inevitably have a certain amount of books, toys, clothes, bedclothes, gadgets and so on.
In about 2015 we discovered an NGO in Kandi which comes and picks up anything you want to throw away and takes it away, promising to recycle anything which can be recycled, and to take the rest to the town dump. That worked pretty well the last couple of times we had used it, so having gathered together quite a lot of things we wanted to get rid of, we contacted them before Christmas. It took a bit longer - perhaps due to the holidays - to get them here, and it seemed a bit less well-organised this time. What they didn't explain was that they would come and do the sorting for recycling here ... which got rather messy ... and then they disappeared off with what they wanted leaving us the junk ... which fortunately someone came and took away on Monday (mainly broken flipflops, old bags, boxes of the kids' used schoolbooks, various kinds of packaging, a random piece of rusty barbed wire...). Last time it was very expensive, but this time nothing was said about payment, and we didn't even see the boss, so...!
Now it's all finished with, it's good to have more space here for sorting what is left! I'm really trying to take the time early enough that it isn't too stressful. Getting down to ten suitcases plus hand luggage is quite a challenge! In the office too, I'm trying to make sure that we are still focusing on detail while we can!
In about 2015 we discovered an NGO in Kandi which comes and picks up anything you want to throw away and takes it away, promising to recycle anything which can be recycled, and to take the rest to the town dump. That worked pretty well the last couple of times we had used it, so having gathered together quite a lot of things we wanted to get rid of, we contacted them before Christmas. It took a bit longer - perhaps due to the holidays - to get them here, and it seemed a bit less well-organised this time. What they didn't explain was that they would come and do the sorting for recycling here ... which got rather messy ... and then they disappeared off with what they wanted leaving us the junk ... which fortunately someone came and took away on Monday (mainly broken flipflops, old bags, boxes of the kids' used schoolbooks, various kinds of packaging, a random piece of rusty barbed wire...). Last time it was very expensive, but this time nothing was said about payment, and we didn't even see the boss, so...!
Now it's all finished with, it's good to have more space here for sorting what is left! I'm really trying to take the time early enough that it isn't too stressful. Getting down to ten suitcases plus hand luggage is quite a challenge! In the office too, I'm trying to make sure that we are still focusing on detail while we can!
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