Up to our necks in...........

…..Water
As we are looking after Jenny’s children, Hannah and Jojo, we are staying in their house. Fortunately we still pop into our home each day as on Friday we discovered that a flexible water pipe in our shower room had broken and we were in danger of being flooded from a major leak from one end. At least the floor has now been washed and was quickly dried up!!

…..Paint
One of the projects Irene is doing with the children is to make a dolls house and garage out of cardboard boxes. For some reason Jojo thought it would be good to get as much paint on himself as on the box – time for an early bath!!

…..Birthday cake
It was Rev Haberts birthday on Sunday and we were invited by his wife, Immaculate, to a surprise birthday dinner along with Ruth and Ellie from Potter’s Village. The only present we had to give Habert was a birthday card, which he got very excited about because Ugandans don’t normally receive presents or cards or cakes on their birthdays.

…..Bishops
Thursday was another public holiday – this time for ‘Heroes Day’ to celebrate the military overthrow 25 years ago of the previous dictator, Oboto, by the current President Museveni. It was also a visit by a group from Britain led by Bishop Ken Barham. Ken’s father, Reverend Lawrence Barham, was one of the early missionaries to SW Uganda and Rwanda, arriving in 1930. Ken was born and grew up in Uganda and has formed a Trust to raise funds for projects, such as the Christian University in Kabale.

…..Bricks
The new babies unit at Potters Village is growing very quickly and the walls are already above head / window height. If Jenny is not careful the unit will open before she gets back from the UK.

…. Diar***** and Vom**
It has been a demanding week for Ruth and Ellie. They have been collecting Hannah and Jojo from school each day. However, on Monday they rang to ask if someone else could do so because the babies at Potters Village had gone down with a contagious stomach bug, and were leaking at both ends!!! The difficulty here is that local people are not brought up to worry about hygiene and the need to wash your hands after changing a nappy so any infection is easily passed from child to child. Fortunately, the problem ‘dried up’ during the week.