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December 23, 2007

Ca va aller

Charlie was not on the flight from England last night. Her flight was overbooked and she got bumped off.

Bumped off to Togo, to be precise, where she is living in a guest-house with sixteen other Afriqiyah refugees. She's okay, but says there is no flight to Burkina today.

I have to go up to Djibo tomorrow cos I'm preaching at the Christmas do in the evening. Looks like we'll be spending our first Christmas apart, until Christmas Day afternoon (at best).

When I tell people here, this is what they say: 'Si il y a la sante seulement, ca va aller!' While there's still health, everything will be all right.

'Ca va aller!' Reminds me of Lieutenant John's story about the snake in the tree:

A man climbed a tree to pinch the eggs from a bird's nest, and when he put his hand in, he found there was a snake there. The man grabbed the head of the snake to hold its mouth shut, but it wrapped itself tightly round his arm and started to squeeze. The man's friend was waiting at the bottom of the tree, and when he saw what was happening he scratched his chin and said, 'Ca va aller.'

I probably won't be able to post anything between now and Christmas, so I'll take this opportunity to wish you all a VERY HAPPY one. Alla hokku jam.

Posted by sahelsteve at December 23, 2007 02:17 PM