WUNDERLI WANDERINGS

Zara has, in the past, had a tendency to wander through to the guest bedroom and crawl into bed beside my Mum when she has come to visit. Thankfully she hasn't done that with any of our other guests. Anyway last night Joshua and Zara went to bed, as usual, in their own beds. About an hour later I had this feeling that something wasn't right down the hallway. I went to investigate. I went into Zara's room to find an empty bed. No Zara and no dolly. I then headed to Joshua's room. As you will see from the above picture she was in beside Joshua with both of them fast asleep. Joshua and Zara get on well together most of the time but this was taking it to a deeper level - sharing the same bed!!! Just as Simon lifted Zara out of Joshua's bed Joshua fell out of bed. Thankfully he didn't hurt himself but just crawled back in again. What a couple of monkeys we have!!

The other day Simon decided it was time the garage was cleaned out. We ended up all getting involved in the process. We still had many of our packing boxes from when we first arrived in Uganda over 6 years ago. However, due to a leaky garage roof and rats many of the boxes were ruined and had to be thrown out. We carried all the boxes down to the corner of the garden where we usually burn rubbish. Joshua and Zara enjoyed watching the fire and playing with the bubble wrap that was still in some of the boxes. As one of the boxes was thrown onto the fire there was a high pitched squeak and something came flying through the air. Yikes it was a rat. I guess it was feeling a bit too hot. Well the poor thing probably didn't know which was worse. Being thrown into the fire in a box or jumping out and facing chewy our dog. Chewy was after it in a second and then Joshua joined in with a stick. Zara and I watched on to see who was going to win. Rats are not high on our favourite ...

Today I had an interesting culture experience. I went for an haircut. Now that might not sound like much of an experience but today was one of those moments. I quite like going to new hairdressers as they always do something a bit different. If you go to your "regular" hairdresser they usually become complacent after a while as they tend to think that they know whats best for your hair even if you ask for something quite different. I usually go between two hairdressers here in Kampala. One salon is run by a South African lady. She is really nice and does a good job. For the past couple of months she hasn't been answering her phone and I was getting desperate. The other salon is run by a Serbian lady but I need to be in the mood to visit her. To put it in a nice way she is a bit harsh on her staff which I find difficult to swallow sometimes. Anyway today I decided to go all out and try a third salon. Now I thought I was pretty safe as I had enquired as to whether...

Last Saturday I aged another year. Joshua and Zara gave an excellent rendition of Happy Birthday. Zara had a difficult time not leading me to the freezer where Simon had made me a birthday cake. She was told to keep it a secret but she was just bursting to tell me. She was, however, glad to be able to help me blow out the candles and get stuck into the chocolate icing. I got a bike for my birthday which is supposed to help me stay fit. After going out on the roads near our house (dirt roads) I feel the bumps and holes are instead going to shake the life out of me. On Sunday we went down to Kajjansi (MAF's airfield). The kids had their bikes too so we all had fun zooming up and down the airstrip. Although Zara was more keen to ride on the back of mine until she got distracted and joined Simon in jumping on the newly constructed termite hills.

We are overjoyed to have our new computer and it is working beautifully. However, the handover from our old computer hasn't been so smooth. Simon backed up all our email addresses and snail mail addresses so we could transfer them to our new computer but for some reason the back up didn't work and so we have lost them all. Yikes!!! If you would like to be in contact with us please could you send us an email so we can rebuild our database again. If you have written us an email this past week you are on our new computer. We do have a paper copy of some of our contacts but it is pretty old now. Ah the days of only paper and no computers. I'm sure it was a lot easier!

Hopefully this pilot figures out how it works :) A pretty big lizard which popped out of the bushes to say hello :) Grosi and Grossvati beside Lake Victoria in Jinja Joshua learning to fly the new plane he got for Christmas - thank you Monika and Dani! Don't I look cool!! Our little sleeping beauty with her friends, Dolly (Emily), Belle and Pinky Having a reliable computer and a reliable internet connection all at the same time has been scarce lately. Today, however, is one of those rare occasions where both are working in unison. Hallelujah. This posting is showing an array of photos in no particular order but just to fill you in on what has been happening.