This is not a sight that mothers enjoy seeing...a thick hooked-end of a 15 cm pin protruding from her sons shoulder...and it moves for Heaven sake!!!!!

Eeeeeeugh!!! Six weeks of this. Fortunately/unfortunately, he's young enough to think that its really 'cool'. He was walking around with his shirt off, the reaction of his cousins being a morbid facination and got a respectful "hauw" from our Malawi domestics.

It looks really rough!