The photo below is the first one I have scanned from a negative using the scanner I bought in Lima. It shows Mum & Dad on the way to Manu in the Amazon Basin in 2002.
From memory they are standing outside the 'restaurant' which has the last public telephone before you enter the jungle.
Ali got back last night at about 7pm to a bollocking from Esther and I.
She had brought Santiago her husband with her as moral support, there are few people I would want less as moral support than Santiago.
Don't get me wrong he is a great bloke, but he just smiles all the time.
When you're on the receiving end of a hairdryer in the face from me and Esther I wouldn't have thought it was helpful to have someone grinning away at your side.
We left Ali to re-integrate with the others and came home to watch a film.
From our ever growing collection we selected 'The Constant Gardener' with Rachel Weisz and Ralph Fiennes.
We thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't already seen it.
Its not particularly cheery viewing but leaves you believing that the vast majority of the story has it's basis in fact.
I was very pleased to read in the Peruvian press yesterday that we're going to get a decent programme starting this Sunday, a very rare event here.
With me not in the cafe we've been able to get out and about a bit more today.
We went down to see what was going on with the cooker, next time I'm going to take it some grapes or flowers, so that it can get some benefit out of our visits.
Today it was at least under cover, but upside down and being sprayed with some dubious substance (probably something else to help it 'acclimatise'), the person we went to meet at 10 was not there by quarter past so we gave up and went to the black market instead.
I got some CD cases and also a rather super jacket with a million pockets (£160.00 in England) for S/. 40 (about £7.00), I'm not convinced it's the same quality but there you go.
Miriam was telling us this morning about the time they had a rat in the cafe.
It had eaten it's way through the wood facade at the front and had taken to living in the speaker above the kitchen that is draped with a Peruvian flag.
'A proper patriot that rat' said Miriam before adding sadly that it was very quickly flushed from it's musical front room and met a rapid end in a trap laced with bread.
This was of course an isolated incident that can happen to any business - there are no rats in the cafe now, although I think we have a mouse in the kitchen at home.
We also went to have a look at the glass display cabinet mkII (the previous one rejected for bad workmanship).
They were actually working on finishing it, unfortunately somewhere along the line the measurements have gone seriously awry.
What they were working on would make a great display cabinet for a stuffed Llama or Spectacled Bear, but my Snickers, plasters and Tampax would look a bit lost in it.
After much head shaking, sucking of teeth etc., they are going to make us another one which will be ready tomorrow, third time lucky?