Floods!

We hear that the news of the floods in Uganda have reached the BBC news!! There have been reports of floods in the districts in the North in the papers here for a couple of weeks and as the photos posted last week show we have had some pretty torrential downpours! One day the newspaper was reporting on the very dry conditions in Karamoja and the problems with the crops and in the same paper two pages later, a report on the rainstorms washing away a bridge and destroying crops in ..yes you guessed it...Karamoja! There has certainly been some extreme weather. The main roundabout in Kampala floods regularly but as these photos show we are lucky to live in one of the 'up-market' and 'up the hill' suburbs. Here is the view of Lake Victoria from the bar at the hotel just up the road where we very occasionally enjoy a cold 'Nile Special' beer!?!! The others show the road leading to the house (you can just see our black gate at the end) and one of me and Alice walking down from the house when she and Ed were here (thanks to Ed for the photos). The wooden structures at the bottom are the little shops where we buy fruit and vegetables and practice our Luganda. Even after being here this long the ladies still burst into fits of laughter at our attempts.