It rains for several hours, then you get maybe an hour or so dry, and then it starts again. When it's really going strong, it's impossible to drive in it. You just pull to the side of the road and wait for it to stop - if you can find the side of the road that is, as the edge disappears under the swirling water!
Fortunately, when you are warned about something, you can prepare. And we prepared by having a glorious two days of sun and sea and sand on one of the offshore islands. Caye (pronounced "key") Caulker was recommended to us, and so we left on Sunday after Church, spent our day off there on Monday, and came back Tuesday morning. It was wonderful - and definitely on the schedule now as a place to take visitors.
We are very glad of our mini break. It means we don't mind the rain so much. It's very much like a British summer storm. The sky suddenly goes dark, and it seems as though the clouds want to drop their entire contents on the ground all at once. And afterwards there is a mini dawn chorus as it brightens up again, and the birds reappear.
When we aren't looking at the weather, work fills a lot of the rest of the time. Both of us have been spending more time than we expected in Anglican and State schools. Ruth is on the School Board of Belmopan Comprehensive, and has been asked to teach religious instruction in two local primary schools. Malcolm has been asked to do school services with three Anglican primary schools. So we thought at least one school photo was in order.
To go with it, here is a baptism photo from a service Malcolm took in Ruth's little church in Unitedville.
And finally, for this instalment, two things we see most days here. The lorries full of oranges rumble along all the highways, taking the oranges to the main citrus juicing plant an hour south of us.
And by the side of the road, we pass the trees - called locally "flamboyant trees" or sometimes "flame trees". They flower in wonderful shades of red and orange, and look incredible.
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