Since our last blog things have moved on very nicely. Firstly the project is going well. We won't bore you with all the details but a few highlightes are.
1. Alison can now tell one goat from another and can even recognise them in the street. She's given a few of them names.
2. She can also tell you how much a goat is worth based on it's gender and size.
3. We can both tell you the prices for beans, sorghum, maize and simsim per Kg.
We're now officially the most boring people in the pub (if only there was a pub).
The best news ever. Beverley and Pauline (Garry's sisters) sent food parcels. This has been life changing stuff. We can make curry, so have had it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Squirty cheese is the worlds best invention and our hut is the best (or should we say only) place in town for Pizza.
Brand Beckham has reached Karamoja. Posh is launching a range of cocktails to complement the gin above. Read carefully the packet. There are some interesting claims.
This is a piggery. Thanks to Kate Snowden for your help with pig information. It helped us create a business plan. Alison hasn't named the pigs yet.
In our attempts to find something new to eat we've started making bread. We can now make our own pizza bases. Toppings are a bit restricted, squirty cheese and tomatoes. Hmm lovely. We're growing some basil (that Pauline sent) so hopefully we can soon add that to the toppings.
This was in a brand new upmarket hotel we stayed at in Abim. When they said they had running water we thought foolishly that you turn on a tap and water comes out. No, no, what you have to do is pump it out of a well and then tip it in a bucket. Then you can have a wash.
These guys were having a beer and a dance after earning a few quid putting on a show for a new bank. The beer is a well dodgy home brew. It's in the red bucket.
This bloke is only 21 but has supped quite a lot of the dodgy home brew. He is doing the conga after a few beers.
This is kabalagala - aka Karamajong "chocolate". The banana and cassava dough on the left is fried in the oil over the flame and comes out crispy. Good breakfast fodder. Couldn't see where Moses had put the fire extingusher in his bamboo hut. Willy Wonker has got nothing on this chocolate factory.
This is a school PE lesson. No excuses accepted, such as no shoes or kit. Get running!
A scorpion outside our hut.
Progress on the building from the last blog.
We had a party. Garry with Andrew, one of the guys we work with.
Sunday morning, reading the papers at what is now called Garry's Corner. It's a little shop that sells everything, including beer.
These kids have made a model village in the sand.
Lots of kids have these toy cars, made out of old oil bottles and bottle tops. You see them racing each other up and down the street with them. The two above are actually Jenson Button's Maclaren and Alonso's Ferrari.
These are the hottest chillies you will ever come across. Small but fiery.
Garry feeding Suzanne and Heidi.
Rainy season. We don't have many clothes so even when they're still wet you have to dry them where you can. This was on a business trip to Kampala.
Same business trip - the car broke down. Never mind, fixed and back on the road in about three hours.
What can we say?
Would you let this guy manage your property?
Geese packed into sacks travelling to market on the roof of a van.
Some of the cows have very big horns. What would you do with a pair of these?
Furniture shop - DFS eat your heart out.
Real bicycles, the only ones we've seen.
Real monkeys, we've seen quite a few along with antelope and buffalo.
This is what you do with the horns. Pimp My Ride!
Check out the registration. We had a very important neighbour staying in the hut next to ours. The Archbishop for the whole of Uganda came to launch the Bible in Karamojong.
One of the projects,we have been working on is to get small bank loans for people who would not normally have access to credit. This is 4 of the first 5 successful applicants celebrating.So why the title, living with Roland and Kermit?
Guess!
Bye for now
Alison and Garry
