Decided to diarise at home since I find computer-diarising much easier. No internet here means I write at home, and then just take it to the net cafe and Bob's your uncle, Jenny's your aunt XD XD

We don't actually have a proper computer table so one has to write on one's knees. Sehr uncomfortable.

There is no water at the moment. The water here goes more often than the current (eckeltrickity) goes in Bangladesh! Of the two, I prefer losing electricity to losing water (still having the presence of mind to recognise which is the essential and which the superogatory XD)(the desert addles my head, but it also teaches me the value of wasser). Aieee! It is back!

Alhamdulillah! Here, you really begin to understand why rain is one of the blessed times in which du'as are accepted, and rain itself is described as Allah's mercy (rahma) - where it barely rains for two days out of every year, water from the sky is a blessing indeed - like that ayah in the qur'an, '...and We send down pure water from the sky' - water from rivers - particularly the Nile, which serves so many people and countries - can become tired by the point they reach their ends. The heavily chlorinated Nile-water of Egypt is nothing like rain. Perhaps in green England (and sub-sea-level Bangladesh) it's difficult to appreciate the sweetness of rain (do we not spend our lives complaining of it?), but here, with the Sahara at our backs, the thought of rain is like a pipe-dream.

I miss the rain.

Anyhow, nature calls. now that the water is back XD XD