Timorese legend has it that if you drink the milk of a coconut in Timor you will come back. I didn’t drink any coconut milk, but I will be back.

Bruce, Simon and I went back to Ostico School today. The children weren’t in school (I think an unofficial holiday had been declared to clean up after the previous days’

I had no real idea what to expect of the school opening. But it was an incredible day. Stephen and I travelled to Ostico with Kirsty – it was wonderful

Simon took me up to Dare today – a little hamlet in the mountains behind Dili. It’s not far in distance, but took us about half an hour by car,

Stephen and I are here. After over a year of thinking about East Timor, we’ve finally arrived. It was a glorious flight from Darwin, with the sun just coming up

As a mother who has spent a lot of time on planes with small children, I have endured many humiliations. Today was a new addition to the long list however.