An interesting day today! It started off with a trip down Road 9 with Liz and Brian who knew where there was a shop that sells curtain poles, but first we hit the book shops. Four book shops and a trip to the Coffee Bean (nice cakes and apparently nice coffee) later, I had the complete set of Narnia stories for Maddison. She is limited to reading 1 a day so they last, it will make a nice change from the Vampire Dairies she has taken to reading.
Anyway then on to the pole shop, anyone who has shopped in Egypt will know things can be a bit hit and miss, today was a hit! 1 adjustable black curtain pole complete with brackets and curtain rings for the main window and 1 brass coloured pole for over the arch complete with brackets and curtain rings all for 141 LE. It was reminiscent of shopping at B and Q only so much smaller, 1 man and two dozen poles to pick from!
Then on to church to pack 120 food bags, the process is starting to run like a smoothly oiled machine now. When I got back Maddy and I went over the road to pick up some essentials, before taking a small break before getting ready to go to home-group.
I should have known something was wrong when Geoff arrived home a little late with a story of a burnt out car and diversions round the back streets. Geoff got a text and phone call about 5:30pm to say a policeman had shot a mini bus driver and people were upset and focusing on the police stations at Port Said and Road 230. I phoned Liz to let her know so she cancelled home-group, along with the chicken curry we were going to have 
Then we got another text saying the British Embassy were advising people to stay indoors (its not often we hear anything from them) so here we are sat inside watching TV (and listening to what sounds like gunfire). Who knows what tomorrow will bring !
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