sunny France

It was so nice to be in France where the weather was actually like summer! It was around 75 to 80 degrees and mostly sunny. London has been rainy and cool, often not getting over 68. 68 is good but I need more sunshine. Today is TUESDAY the 24th July: When we got home from France I found that the refrigerator in the main kitchen was not cold, not even cool. So the milk and everything else was spoiled. Ed used a good part of the day to check out refrigerators on the internet through a company called "Which". It is similar to consumer reports but for the U.K. We greet new guests, a family of four, from Chicago, IL. At 7:30p we have a house dessert together because after the huge house meal last night, we were too full to eat dessert. Last night we ate rollkuchen and watermelon which is a Russian Mennonite meal that was eaten in the summer when they had lots of melons. If you want to try it out, the recipe is in the more with less cook book. Two of the Centres residents are back from Berkina Faso, where they were for six weeks for various reasons. They brought back treats of cashews and dried mango and gifts of carved elephants made out of hard redwood. Then later we briefly talked with Darlene Bontrager on Skype. So now it's time for bed and tomorrow has a lot of mailings of manuals to go out to participants of the next mediation facilitation workshop given by Bridge Builders.