Ouch!
Doug here…
“Sunset”
Its sunday evening in Santiago. The sun is blowing out nice yellow rays and the buildings outside are lighting up. This morning, I saw my first cloud since arriving in Chile.. after Church. This afternoon i think we saw our first “overcast” day!! (although you could hardly tell- it probably matched a nice August day in Edinburgh).
“Why ouch?”
Rachel just hit her head on the kitchen’s extractor fan for the fourth time in 3 days! She’ll have a mis-shaped head soon…. Doug jumps to the rescue but then offers that typical “men are from mars” comment- “i don’t hit my head on it, so i don’t know why you do!”. Nice one Doug- i’m 3-4 inches taller than Rachel!
“Kitchen woes”
I can tell we’re going to have a new chopping board soon too- Rachel has just moaned that the one provided in this flat is a perfectly square stone effort, with raised pebble-like bumps in it, does not do the job! I don’t count it as a nag- i’m just remembering what Andy Dowsett (Rachel’s dad) said during his wedding day speech- “a man who is wrong and admits it is a good man. A man who knows he is right but says he is wrong is married”. I have to admit… Rachel is right. It isn’t up to the job. Thats because its a hot plate (for pans) not a chopping board. But next time i cook, i’ll tell her!
“Church!”
Besides the chopping board and my wife’s dented head, its been a great day. This morning, we visited the english speaking service of the Santiago International Community Church. It was great to meet several english people and a frightening number of glasweigans in high-powered places! The service was very similar to a middle Church of England service, or Scottish Episcopal service, with liturgy we recognised from home and a range of hymns played on the organ that we haven’t heard since school. Still, fabulous second-sunday-in-advent sermon preached by Rev Bubb (better to be a Bubb than a Beelzebubb we thought) on preparing for the coming Christ- advent is a time to settle our battles with each other and with God.
“Home from home”
After church we got our first “real” cup of tea! It was great. None of that dodgy french stuff we got on the plane (Air France appear to serve tea and coffee mixed together at 38,000 ft- at least we had a chance to tell them though.. their in-flight entertainment system includes a survey of service and customer satisfaction). Tea with real milk was a bit of a novelty for us after 3 mornings of black tea- the milk we thought we bought was in fact, peach flavoured light yoghurt. Nice.
Dinner time. Mmmmm. I’ll try to include a pic in this blog in a few minutes, so you can see the view from our balcony!