Meant to say in earlier emails how the scaffolding worked usually they are so careful of hfh volunteers and youre not allowed to get up on shonky stuff without a hard hat etc but anyway this was thin branches of something treelike held together with the odd nail. There were some diagonal braces and the horizontal pieces were inserted into the wall by way of bashing a half brick out at the appropriate height!! Anyway it all worked, nobody got injured and the walls didn't even budge when the skilled labourer was bashing through so I felt quite good about that since we'd built the walls and they were only single brick with little reinforcing.
Did I mention to found a scorpion under a brick? It wasn't v big and was quite light coloured. I was fascinated and was watching it but the locals saw it and stomped on it. So that was the end of that! There were quite a lot of geckos and spiders we didn't see snakes but the other team did. Birds are plentiful but not large or pretty. Butterflies quite pretty though.
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