But just to keep my feet on the ground and temper my joy, I continued in what seems to be emerging as a tradition: I ruined the coffee pot at Lucy's where I am staying, by forgetting all about the fact that I'd put it on until the handle melted and I had to go and get this new one..(for precedent see entry mid April...)Lucy, by the way, is one of the original Mali people, with whom I went on the holiday in January 2006 which changed my life. Tomorrow night we are having a Mali get-together, and on Thursday I am watching a film at the French Institute by Suleyman Cisse,who is now Minister of Culture in Mali, and who came to visit the hotel a little while ago.