Having received emails almost daily from Arabella Churchill during her time in Sri Lanka and Thailand with Children's World International, there has been silence for the past week.

I am assuming that the team got home safely, and that we shall hear about their journey home in due course.

Meanwhile, do have a look at their diary, with a blow by blow account of the difficulties they faced, and what they were able to achieve. It is on a Wiki, which is a wonderful way of letting different people contribute to a website, without any of them knowing much about writing for the web.

I set up a free account with people called PB Wiki (standing for Peanut Butter Wiki - no don't ask - they have a sense of humour) and it was all very easy. If you want to do the same, here is their distinctive logo to click on:



For the first few weeks of the tour we used a simple password and advertised it on the wiki site itself, so that absolutely anyone could contribute - I suggested that they do it on the message page. About 20 people did contribute, making friendly and humorous comments. But then someone wrote maliciously, so we had to change the password (easy to do with PB Wiki) and limit the contributors to those in the know.

So, if you would like to have a website that's dead easy to set up, and free, you know where to go!

And I do hope I hear from Arabella soon ...