It's Friday 4pm and it is 39 degrees outside (102.2F) and humidity is v high - am sweating just typing in dark room! I realised it was hot when I broke into a sweat eating a cherry tomatoe! 6 punnits of cherry tomatoes and 28 fresh peaches off our friendly wine seller after I bought 5 litres of fresh wine and 10 eggs (for 8 euros - £5.30 - $9.66).

Jon has gone into Rome to search out the more spiritual aspects of it (probably staying in cool church buildings). Andrea and Emma went to the Sistine Chapel this morning but are now back. It looks like God has sorted out our house in Sheffield, despite rumours being circulated that we were selling/having problems renting it out. God has taken the load off us and done all the work in getting the people He wants in the house - just like in this past year - hooray for God!

Jancsi & Melinda and Christian & Betti have gone off into Rome again they are really getting their mileage. They went to a free concert last night and I picked them up at the metro (underground) station at half twelve. They had planned to go to the Sistine chapel today and they asked me how much it was. I told them, errenously, that it was 16 euros (it's actually 12) which is the same as Christian earns as a 3 year qualified doctor in a day! Made us really appreciate how rich we are. Going to try and bless them as much as possible now.

We all went to the beach yesterday by public transport and we can do it in under 2 hours so we really can get all of the Oxford team there for their day off if they would like to go.