Saturday 14^th November

Ann spent much of yesterday morning at the local primary school helping children with their reading before heading to the local Friday market. Ann is getting quite adept at local shopping and managed to purchase some beef to turn into a casserole. Beef here is UgSh 9000 per kilo or about £1.75 but you do get chopped up bones into the bargain!

Studiously studying our reading book!

One of the things I have been surprised about while working in the hospital is the high levels of smoking in the local community. They don’t smoke manufactured cigarettes but their own preparation of tobacco leaves. Unfortunately this leads to similar problems as at home with people developing chronic lung disease or cancer of the lung. The lady whose chest x-ray this is has presented with a very advanced lung cancer which has spread to her neck.

A very advanced cancer arising in the right lung.

In the afternoon Ann tried her hand at milking a cow fulfilling a lifelong ambition! She really managed very creditably and as part of the litre of milk that we purchased some of the milk she had extracted was included!

Under close tuition!

Success!

Our litre of milk for 22p

We have had a quiet day today with a long walk to the local Give a Goat project-this was our objective 3 weeks ago when we were stranded in the rain! Not surprisingly there were a large number of goats wandering around! If a local group asks for a goat then one is given with the proviso that the first offspring is given back to the project. It certainly seems an excellent scheme.

Tomorrow we are off early for a day in Queen Elizabeth Park with Heather and Peter Candy and their daughter Tess who is here for a week. We did promise ourselves one visit to the park and going with others should make for an enjoyable day.