The times they are a-changing

 It’s another week of ‘all change’.

 Ian and Hannah Spillman left Kisiizi this week  to start their journey back to the UK. They have been here for 3 months and Hannah had been running the Finance Office. Both will be missed, but Malcolm will particularly miss Hannah as she dealt with all the demands for payments and the day to day operation of the office, usually leaving after 9pm. This freed  Malcolm to bring the accounts up to date, writing reports etc etc.

It is important to thank people for their work when they leave and this was no exception, demanding a cake!

One benefit for Malcolm is that he could move again to what is probably one of the best houses, called Valley View. (Sadly the bushes around the house have grown so there is not much of a view!).

Helping with the move was Peace, who works for Malcolm by shopping, cooking, cleaning , laundry etc. Although the houses have kitchens with cookers local woman are used to cooking outside on small charcoal burners. 

Peace has 2 children –the eldest being Olivia.

Another change is that Malcolm and Irene celebrated their wedding anniversary!! For Irene this meant going out for coffee and cake with a friend and then an evening meal. For Malcolm, a piece of precious Cadbury’s chocolate brought from England. (Although Cadbury’s chocolate can be bought here it is to a different recipe so it melts at a higher temperature – which means it doesn’t  taste the same!).

 

As Irene is the Greek for ‘peace’, does that mean Malcolm has a very ‘Peace-full’ life?

Finally, one traditional musical instrument in Uganda is a drum made of a part of a barrel covered with goat skin. This is used to accompany singing at morning chapel