Happy New Year
on Mangos, Monkeys and Maggie (Uganda), 08/Jan/2009 17:58, 34 days ago
New Years resolution was to make sure we did the blog every week end so we’ve failed on that one. At least I have managed to stay off the booze, drugs and single women.Christmas has come and gone and the New Year has started. Christmas was different. Eating turkey, sprouts and bread sauce at Court View with all our friends was a good way to spend the evening but we missed family and friends back home. African dancers and drumming was a good substitute for Morecombe and Wise.New Years eve was spend at Nabaye on the edge of the Budongo forest. Cathy and Roman are two research workers working with the chimps in the forest the held a party for all their staff. We had a great time with a big barbecue, dancing and fireworks. The night sky was fantastic with a million stars that you can never see in the UK.Maggie and I had promised our selves a chill out weekend at Nile safari lodge to start the year. It was a great time and we avoided the game drives and just sat and read and watched the animals from the veranda. It is a special place and we love going there. Even the two punctures, the dust and the tsetse flies could not spoil it. We are going again next month when Hannah comes out.The New Year has brought fresh challenges at work. We have now completely run out of anti TB drugs. This means we now have to say to patients yes you have TB, that is why you are coughing, sweating and losing weight. There is some really good treatment that would make you feel better within a few weeks. Unfortunately we do not have any, may be try next month. I can not understand how Uganda can run out of such essential drugs.There was some good news this week. Vincent the baby with dislocated knees came to see me. He is fine very sturdy and taking his weight on good straight legs. His grand mother is very pleased and brought me a live chicken to thank me.