Category Africa

For the last two Monday’s Helen, the previous tenant from the UK has come to visit. She has become a lovely friend with whom I have caught up with on several occasions and plan to join her when she visits…

At the beginning of a new year at Wakisa there are programs and lessons to prepare. A schedule for the year planned out.   I am helping Harriet, Wakisa’s live in midwife, with topics on Infant Care. I went through my…

As some of you know from my prayer points at the bottom of each blog page I have recently been asking for prayer for Uganda as they approach their elections.  Some of my friends have been very worried that I…

January the first!  New year resolutions? Not for me.  I prefer to leave disappointments, regrets and old dreams behind me and take a leap of faith into an optimistic future, with a fresh new canvas stretching out before me on…

Boxing Day I slept in.  Too lazy to get out of bed when I woke up, I just lay there enjoying the notion that there was nothing on the agenda for the day.  Mind you when I finally rose at…

Saturday was a time at home catching up with work and washing but by 8am the power was off.  Although there are frequent power failures, not many people in Uganda can afford generators or sola power backup, another reason many…