Monday 16^th November

We had an extremely enjoyable and relaxing day in Queen Elizabeth National Park with Heather and Peter Cundy and their daughter Tess. Peter is working as an administrator at the hospital. Tess is on a one week holiday.

Heather, Peter and Tess at Mweya

 

We saw some interesting things including a total of three large rodents-two seen before chalking up our score on the board and one afterwards!

Elephants and Buffalo by the river at Mweya

Our sightings for the day!

Lions and leopards proved somewhat elusive on Sunday!

The closest we got to seeing any lions or leopards. The stuffed specimens at the education centre.

 

Even if there was not a huge amount to seen in the park at times we were held up on our way home by heavy traffic on the main road!

Heavy Traffic!!

 

Today has been another grass hopper day Ann was trying to get the children to concentrate on their reading which was being done outside as the classroom was being swept out. The children however were much more interested in the grasshoppers and if any came near they were quickly stuffed into their pockets for later!

Two new statues! An addition to the school since we were last here.

Catching grasshoppers was preferable to reading!

 

Ann's other little job today was dismantling the oven in the house where we are staying to try to get it working properly but all to no avail!

My main achievement of the day was reuniting some nebulisers (needed for treating asthma) with some missing components. The nebulisers had been donated about 3 years ago and I had been told that they “didn’t work”.  What was meant in fact was that there were no power leads! In fact they all seemed to work perfectly after I had obtained some power leads from a computer graveyard in the records office! Fortunately the power leads for both the nebulisers and the oxygen concentrators are the same as the computer leads.  After extracting 2 masks and associated piping from Rob Morris’s  bits and pieces in his office, hey presto we now have 3 working nebulisers  (one each for paediatrics, male medical and female medical) and also 3 other nebulisers working but in need of the masks and pipework (which is discarded in the UK after single use).