All On Board

At work Malcolm has had two Committee meetings – his first Finance Committee and his first Hospital Board. As its almost the end of the financial year it meant he was busy presenting and explaining the Hospital budget for the first time.

 In between meetings we have been busy. Friday was a ‘Praise and Worship’ evening at the hospital which was an opportunity for staff and students to have a proper religious ‘knees up’.

 

 On Saturday Malcolm went with the Hospital lorry to collect some furniture given to us and other Church Mission Society workers at the Hospital. Nick and Kate Wooding have worked in Uganda for 16 years, originally at Kiwoko Hospital but more recently Nick has been vice Chancellor in Health Sciences at the International University, Kampala. They return to the UK to resume life as a GP and his wife.

Although most of the homes in the village around the hospital are modern brick built structures with corrugated iron roofs there  are the occasional traditional round houses made from wood and mud with a thatched roof.

 

This week’s bug is another large beetle which visited our home. This one rushed into our bedroom where Irene was sleeping as soon as the picture was taken - Malcolm failed to go in and rescue her.

 

 

This week’s proverb from the BBC Africa web-site is from South Sudan  “The pot of water falls from your head when you have just reached the door of your homestead”