The Sun Shines in Odessa

Good afternoon from sunny Odessa, the rain has moved on and we woke this morning to brilliant sunshine. We've been having some problems with internet access, in fact we are at Transition House at the moment and Andy has had to get the internet up and running so that we can send this blog. The time is now 5pm here (3pm in Worcester) so only about an hour or so left to work today. We hope to go out this evening with the lads fromTranstion House and some of the people from the church who have been looking after us.

We have just had a 'chai' (tea) break which consisted of a selection of different types of tea, soft drinks, fresh strawberries, cherries, apricots and biscuits. when you work hard you need the energy!

We have been working hard again today, plastering, continuing with the metal ceiling supports and plasterboarding the ceilings.

We have had some help today from some of the lads from Transition House as well as Pastor Igor's two sons.

Plasterboarding the ceiling with the boy's help.

The 'Rev' Hughes wearing his new prescription spectacles!!

The ceiling in the room we started Monday is now almost complete, time to move on to the next.

The guys are are still persevering with the metalwork, they are now at the difficult stage around the windows.

We've split off into another team now to start on the room that has just had the metal supports put up. No pressure on the metalwork team at the windows then!

Andreas putting the first finish coat of plaster on and levelling out John's plastering!!!

There is fair bit of Ukraine v UK banter going on. Check out tomorrows blog for an explanation of this photo.