Title: Postcard from Uganda (
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VSO Cluster Project - Lake Mburo July 2010 - 05/Nov/2010 13:00 - 4920 days ago
In July of this year, the Mbarara and Bushenyi Cluster (VSO volunteers) took a group of children and their carers/parents and so...
Kato Mathias - 17/Sep/2010 12:06 - 4969 days ago
Back in March of this year Kato Mathias, a 5 year old little boy, was referred to Healthy Child Uganda by one of the ...
Masindi Reunion - June 2010 - 16/Sep/2010 19:09 - 4970 days ago
In early June I paid a return visit to Masindi, where I lived when I first arrived in Uganda. My friends and ex-volunteers Chris...
Four month up-date...! - 12/May/2010 04:45 - 5097 days ago
Did I mention before that I wasn't very good at keeping a diary, on-line or otherwise....... hhmmm! Well the lack of blog up-dat...
Ber's visit....travels around Uganda - 12/May/2010 04:25 - 5097 days ago
To say I was excited about Ber coming to visit, would be putting it mildly.... I'd been counting down the days since i...
Catching up with family ......great Christmas in South Africa - 03/May/2010 01:14 - 5106 days ago
I spent the 2 weeks over Christmas and New Year with my sister Fionnuala and her family just outside Durban - my sister Mar...
Mushroom picking at HCU - 01/May/2010 21:22 - 5108 days ago
These photos are of the HCU staff picking mushrooms in the flower beds in the compound. The mushrroms apparently appear annually...
VSO Cluster Project - 01/May/2010 20:54 - 5108 days ago
Back in July, I wrote about the Mbarara/Bushenyi volunteers getting involved with a community youth project, that teaches young ...
Tea and grasshoppers.....! - 12/Dec/2009 12:06 - 5248 days ago
What's green, crispy, quite greasy and very salty?A big juicy fried Ugandan grasshopper!!!Think I'll stick to Pringles!!Mid-Nove...
Invasion of the ants......... - 30/Oct/2009 12:29 - 5291 days ago
Over the last 2 weeks there's been quite a lot of rain, which means lots of mud as most roads off the main roads and out of town...
Kato and Kakuru - 08/Oct/2009 08:32 - 5313 days ago
When twins are born in Uganda they are often given traditional names meaning first and second born, but what these nam...
Where's the groom?! - 06/Oct/2009 19:57 - 5315 days ago
A few weeks ago I was invited to attend the introduction and give away for Harriet, one of the girls who wo...
Photos from Lake Mburo - 05/Oct/2009 12:24 - 5316 days ago
Lake Mburo is a small national park about an hour and a half's drive from Mbarara on the way to Kampala. Below are photos from m...
Speeches...speeches...and more speeches.....! - 01/Sep/2009 20:10 - 5350 days ago
On Saturday last I attended a function in a small parish about an hours drive from Mbarara. The reason for the function was to a...
More flowers....! - 31/Aug/2009 20:18 - 5351 days ago
More photos of flowers! This was the 2nd training session for the flower making project, but it was very different from the firs...
Jimmy and Jeremy - 10/Aug/2009 15:17 - 5372 days ago
Jimmy and Jeremy are one month old twin boys - don't be fooled by the pink hats. Babies are dressed in all sorts of clothes here...
Flowers Galore! - 28/Jul/2009 07:44 - 5385 days ago
Imentioned in my last post that I was organising income generating training for local communities, well below are lots of photos...
'Welcome Our Dear Visitors' - 07/Jul/2009 17:07 - 5406 days ago
Last Saturday I met up with other VSO volunteers from Mbarara and the neighbouring district of Bushenyi for a cluster group meet...
Anyone for a cup of tea? - 21/Jun/2009 06:58 - 5422 days ago
Until last weekI'd only ever seen images of tea plantations on TV or the side of a box of Tetley tea bags. I was visiting a grou...
Pretty in pink! - 12/Jun/2009 19:20 - 5431 days ago
Left: Bernard and me - the 2 yr. old son of one of the village CORP's. He took a shine to me once he realised I had homemade coo...
House photos - Mbarara - 03/Jun/2009 11:14 - 5440 days ago
My new (pink!) houseI was really lucky to find this house - it's compact and bijoux, as the agents would say! But it's comfortab...
A week of new experiences - 31/May/2009 18:43 - 5443 days ago
The'Tippy Tap'- this is ingenius, and such a good idea! It’s a simple water dispenser which enables people to wash their hands...
Developments....... - 13/May/2009 15:19 - 5461 days ago
Once again it's been ages since I've 'blogged' - when I started my blog my intention had been to 'post' regularly but unfortunat...
Lake Albert photos - 18/Apr/2009 16:19 - 5486 days ago
I've had two trips to Lake Albert recently - I visited Butiaba, a fishing village on the shores of the lake at Easter with some ...
Let the rains begin.... - 06/Apr/2009 18:17 - 5498 days ago
Some of the localchildren who live near my house - they all come running out, shouting'muzungu, bye'(they mean hello!) when they...
Come on girls! - 11/Mar/2009 17:21 - 5524 days ago
Celebrations for International Women's Day.....girl power!A very large stick insect on the outside (thankfully!) of one of the m...
Life begins...... - 01/Mar/2009 18:41 - 5534 days ago
Ugandan-style birthday cake (lots of icing)!I hit theBIG 40(it's hard to believe I know!) at the end of last week,so I'm eagerly...
Untitled - 24/Feb/2009 18:05 - 5539 days ago
It'sbeen a while since I last put a posting on. But I have a good excuse -the hotel was extremely busy for 10 days right up to l...
Work stuff..... - 05/Feb/2009 17:26 - 5558 days ago
Business at the hotel has been very quiet the last fews weeks, this is due in part to the normal January slump that most busines...
Soggy Bank Holiday! - 26/Jan/2009 18:30 - 5568 days ago
Yesterday, January 26th, was a public holiday in Uganda, commemorating the day that the National Resistance Movement came to pow...
More photos.... - 22/Jan/2009 18:12 - 5572 days ago
Maribou Storks - they're quite common in UgandaCrocodile on the NileA family of baboonsSunrise on the NileThe Rift Valley with L...
First four weeks - 13/Jan/2009 18:39 - 5581 days ago
It's exactly 4 weeks now since I left the UK and I'm gradually getting used to life here in Masindi. The heat is incredible at t...
Happy New Year! - 01/Jan/2009 10:39 - 5593 days ago
Happy New Year everyone!Well, it is just over 2 weeks since I arrived in Uganda. I'm slowly getting used to the heat and the dus...
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