Borders in Borneo

It has been a busy month here in Brunei with the Easter holidays and two very memorable journeys. Our first big road trip took us across the border into Sabah, Malaysia, where we based ourselves around Kota Kinabalu for 5 days. We saw orang-utans at a rehabilitation sanctuary for orphaned animals, drove to Mount Kinabalu National Park and walked one of the trails (actually one and a half trails as the signs were not clear) and then got a boat to one of the islands and had a go at snorkelling.

I was very lucky to be allowed to go into the jungle in Brunei the following week and see some more incredible sights. Reaching the field centre involved travel by road and by river, which in itself was a fantastic experience. The first evening I climbed a gantry to the top of the rainforest canopy and was rewarded with a beautiful combination of rising cloud and sunset. Once my knuckles had loosened from the fear, I was even able to capture some of it on camera!

Now back home and the school term is well under way again. Big Man is busy at work, I am trying to get my Falklands project completed and Woozles is now riding the bus to school, like the very big brave girl she is.

The only excitement last week was noticing that the 'grains' in my out-of-date Ryvita started to move across my plate in a fashion contrary to gravity - weevils!!!