Simply Batty!

Its been a bit of a batty week.

 

It started of with a bar b q with Rory last Saturday. It started well enough with Rory skilfully lighting the fire to cook the beef burgers. However it all got a bit soggy when the rain soaked the crisp burgers, as well as Rory.

 

And then there was the birthday party for Susan, the Chief Executive of one of the Hospital main funders, Isis. Malcolm was a bit surprised when she appeared to have taken exception to the birthday card he presented to her. Fortunately no lasting damage was done.

 

And as for our other visitors!!! Sarah from Chesham decided she needed to imitate the stars of a 1969 cult movie by riding pillion. as she toured the local countryside. With a bit of imagination, and with your eyes closed, Bosco, an HIV counsellor working at the hospital, could almost be mistaken for Peter Fonda.

 

We had thought Steve Burgess, our boss from the Church Mission Society, had come to check up that everything was OK with us. However, he soon took the opportunity of scoring a rounder’s home run – against a team of children who attend the hospital’s HIV clinic.

 

The local animal wildlife was also acting a bit batty. This included a goat. He had clearly decided to go climbing to read a hospital poster (only kidding).

 

Sadly not all the wildlife is so endearing. Bats are a menace as they spread diseases and rabies, so from time to time the hospital has to take steps to remove them. This week it was a bit like a bat cemetery around our house. Not something that would be permitted in the UK?

 

Another practice which would be frowned upon in the UK appeared quite happily in a national newspaper here. What is this? A business awards ceremony in Uganda where a white business man is carried in by what appears to be 4 black male slaves…………. Surely not. Is it Uganda, or the UK which is going a bit batty over being ‘PC’?

 

This week’s African proverb from the BBC Africa web-site is from Nigeria:  “Don't befriend a goat if your cover cloth is made from plantain leaves”