Introduction

An introduction is like paying a 'bride price'. We were invited to be part of the grooms entourage to go to the brides village to persuade her family to let us bring her back. Actually the groom is the Dean of Students at the college and his bride is a tutor and they live down the road from us with their baby! The ceremony is however a big affair with many hours of negotiation between the spokesmen for each family and the handing over of many gifts....fruit, vegetables, tea, bread, soap, a calabash of the local brew,beer, soda, Blueband margarine, a live chicken and a cow!! Quite an experience for us. Here a photo of us in traditional costume of the West of Uganda (Suka for me and a Kanzu for Rob) and me carrying one of the many baskets of gifts.

We are now having a 'wet season' which didn't really come when it should in March but is now happening at the time of the second wet season (Sept. - Nov.). There is flooding in the north of the country and bits of Kampala flood because of terrible drainage and the awful roads. We are at the top of a hill which is good! These photos were taken from the front of the house.