Putting up something that is not a yurt.

I had a short walk to the local cemetery, which was frighteningly deathly quiet, and slept a lot today, then this evening what we call a yurt, but the Kyrgyz call something else was put up for the visiting Swedish tourists.  No energy for the other things I wanted to do today, but let's hope things get resolved re my hours or even better that I find I actually have more energy and better health than I think and that I can cope more than I realise.

It may be that the internet has been repaired which is nice. One of Nathan's uncle's in Kenya was buried this week, so that was sad, and I was unable to get through the day he was brought to the family home. I was most surprised when I took Nathan to visit his family there many years ago to find that I was invited in to be part of the family too. Given that I had been a very short lived girlfriend I had not expected this. At the time Shem's brother Hesbon, who had to take over as head of the family told me that as senior wife so to speak I had a responsibility for the family.  Given that my family and the Government are always supporting me I did not think much about this statement, but when I got through to Kenya the other day I was reminded of this fact.  Apparently the uncle leaves four children and a wife, and Hesbon is doing a whip round to try and build them a house, and eventually set up a fund to send them to university - which is amazingly kind of him - he is always having to bail someone out in the family, but as to whether I should be similarly kind well that is another matter.  At present I get my expenses to live here, so the idea of having to help a woman I have never met before does not grab me, but I can see that it is not fair on Hesbon either that he is the one having to do everything as a result both of Shem sort of refusing to do this when he was alive and then being unable to do this as he too is dead.  What I am not quite sure about is why I am "senior wife" but with no husband is supposed to support "non senior wife without a husband"  I can see that the British benefit system whilst at fault does help avoid a lot of these types of obligations.  Anyway I hope that someone can help the widow as her situation must be pretty ghastly at present.