WUNDERLI WANDERINGS

As I write I am sitting at Kajjansi Airfield waiting to fly to Congo. The weather is terrible so we will see if we take off or not. :) I am off to visit with friends from the MAF East Congo programme. Up till now it has not been possible to go for a visit with work and family commitments. Now that Simon's parents are here for a visit and Simon has two office days this week I decided to use this opportunity to go. I will return on Wednesday afternoon. I hope to take lots of photos so I will post them when I get back. Pray for a good visit and for the family as they remain at home in Uganda.

One of my facebook friends belongs to a group called "You know you've been in Uganda for a long time when...." These are some funny things that we come across often when living in Uganda. I thought I would share a few with you. For those of you who have had the privilege of visiting this country you will appreciate them all the more. Enjoy! YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN IN UGANDA FOR A LONG TIME WHEN... - When you walk into a restaurant and ask 'is there food?' (Brenda Mawenu) - When "E" on the fuel gauge means Enough (Alex Porter) - When "being lost" to someone actually means they haven't seen you for a few days (Jamie Mills McKenzie) - When the taxi driver indicates that he is turning left when is actually turning right because only one indicator works but he needs to let you know that he will be turning in some direction at some point.... (Joyce Byaru) - You get arrested and start bargaining over the bribe whilst you drive yourself to jail. (...

The other night Simon and I had just gone to bed when there was a loud noise coming from the bathroom. At first, we thought it was something that had just fallen off the shelf. I jumped out of bed only to find that it wasn't anything falling off the shelf but that the toilet cistern had cracked and there was water pouring out of it. I ran to the kitchen to get a bucket to catch the water as well as shout to Simon to tell him what happened. By the time i got back with the bucket there was no Simon. I managed to catch some of the water in the bucket while trying to explain to Simon what happened. I don't think he believed me or heard me at first. Anyway we managed to rig something up for the night so that no water would come out. Simon was able to purchase a new cistern and fit it in as best he could. You can't always find the exact size so it needed a bit of creativity to make it work. You can see the mess Simon is in the photos. :) It wasn't two days and the toilet hand...

Over the Christmas holidays we took Granny and J and Z down to the Speke resort where they can do some horseriding. This is becoming a bit of a tradition when Granny comes to visit. We had a lot of rain over Christmas and so the flowers were just spectacular and so i thought I would share some with you...just so you know we could do with some of that rain now. Today it was 90 degrees in the shade..hot hot hot!

We sadly said goodbye to my Mum on Saturday night as she returned to Scotland. We had a good visit with her and enjoyed our time together. I am going to share with you a day with you that Mum and I had together. It started out as a normal day whatever that is in Uganda. :) We had a couple of things to do in town but unfortunately our car was out of commission as two of the wheels nuts on one tyre had sheared off. Don't ask me how that happens. Anyway due to the condition of the roads here I didn't want to chance it and have my tyre come off so we hired a MAF car for the things we were to do. It is a saloon car so already you need to drive a bit differently. With our 91 Landcruiser people move out of the way but in a wee toyota corolla people think they can plow through you and have every right to cut you off every which way. As we were driving down Makindye hill I was aware that something had bumped us. I looked in the rear mirror to see a cyclist jump off the ground o...