It’s been fairly exciting here, but nothing like in England!!!!!
First of all we’ve been reading about the snow. Oh dear. And here it’s 'boringly' beginning to get hotter, with the rain reducing. The Bishop from Kisoro and his wife have been visiting the north of England for the past 5 weeks - it will be interesting to hear what they think when they return next week.
But even more exciting than that is we understand the BBC programme we appeared in, To Buy or Not to Buy, was broadcast last Wednesday, and from what we can gather from ‘Facebook’ has caused a bit of a stir amongst family and friends – some laughed until they cried / wet themselves, others covered their faces in embarrassment, others are still trying to avoid watching it. And we don’t know what all the fuss is about as here we can’t see what is, after all, a serious house-hunting programme.
First of all we’ve been reading about the snow. Oh dear. And here it’s 'boringly' beginning to get hotter, with the rain reducing. The Bishop from Kisoro and his wife have been visiting the north of England for the past 5 weeks - it will be interesting to hear what they think when they return next week.
But even more exciting than that is we understand the BBC programme we appeared in, To Buy or Not to Buy, was broadcast last Wednesday, and from what we can gather from ‘Facebook’ has caused a bit of a stir amongst family and friends – some laughed until they cried / wet themselves, others covered their faces in embarrassment, others are still trying to avoid watching it. And we don’t know what all the fuss is about as here we can’t see what is, after all, a serious house-hunting programme.
But even more exciting than that - we heard on Saturday that our daughter, Rachel, gave birth to our third grandson Mark – a week or so earlier than planned but very welcome especially as he arrived on Malcolm’s birthday. We hope now that Malcolm will at least remember in future one relative’s birthday!!
Compared to that it has been relatively dull here!
Of course, there was Malcolm’s birthday. He received several presents, including a Christmas emergency relief ‘Food parcel’ with amongst other items mince pies, cake, trifle and Christmas tree (or at least the seeds to grow a Christmas tree). a Sudoku game for the DS and a dictionary for Rufumbira , the local language. He can’t remember how old he is but has been told next year is a ‘big’ birthday – which must mean he will be 21 (again).
On Sunday we took our lives in her hands when we went with Jenny to another village church for a presentation of a prize – only this time to the back of beyond. The rough track we went on to avoid a 'dangerous’ bridge was almost impassable even to a 4 wheel drive vehicle because:
- parts had been washed away by the rain
- there were several steep gradients – almost 45 degrees in places
- part of the road had been undercut leaving a 6 foot deep crater in the middle of the track
We arrived to find the church was about 1 km away from the nearest road, accessed down a valley by a track (made especially for us by the church members) and up the other side.
We then had a very enthusiastic welcome, partly because we were the first white people ever to visit the church., and were served a large lunch after the service.
On the return journey we decided to take the better road but risk the bridge – we made it!!! But nobody but Jenny was in the car when it crossed the bridge – Malcolm had his camera ready just in case she got into difficulties. How thoughtful!
After all that excitement it was a fairly quiet week with one tragedy. We are sorry to report there will not be the patter of tiny claws / wings outside our office as the nest has been abandoned.
After all that excitement, we can’t wait to see what happens next week!!!!
The following signs are at the entrance of a nearby Seseme Girls school and demonstrates again the Government’s up-front approach to tackling AIDS that we mentioned on 29th October.
The following signs are at the entrance of a nearby Seseme Girls school and demonstrates again the Government’s up-front approach to tackling AIDS that we mentioned on 29th October.
You know you live in Africa when….
…the gloss paint, which is described on the tin as ‘dry in 6 hours’, is still tacky 4 days and 2 thunderstorms later
… you realise you have discussed seriously how to catch, fry and eat grass-hoppers
1 comment:
Do hope all going well and yr not eating too many grass hoppers (yuck!)
Was lovely to see you both at home at Emmanuel on sunday and Malcome I do hope you have some time to do some colouring in!! Much love Heather and Harvey x
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