The most Horrific Tale you may ever hear (except for perhaps the other story that I gave exactly the same title to a while back!)

Every so often I have a truly shockingly bad experience here in Uganda. The last time I wrote a story with such a title involved a very large cockroach in my bed that even decided to take an excursion onto my face and which I only JUST managed to kill before the power suddenly went off! (A truly close call!)

Well, a few days ago I had another terrifying experience and one which will once again take some time, and no doubt a certain amount of counselling to recover from!

I must first explain the state of mind I was in that day because, much as what I did was inexcusable, I would like to claim some element of insanity. I had had a ridiculously busy few days off the back of a busy few weeks. In fact I had not had a proper day off for almost 3 weeks and was feeling the strain.

I awoke in the morning to realise that in 10 minutes I was scheduled to be giving a computer lesson down at the church so in a half asleep state fumbled around and jumped into Duncan’s car to head down to the church.

It was as I was driving that the shameful, unimaginably awful moment of realisation occurred to me. I was thinking, “driving this car seems strange this morning...it feels a bit weird...”

I looked down, and lo and behold....and please brace yourself my friends because this was a scenario I had never fully prepared myself for....I was wearing SOCKS AND SANDALS!!!!

It was a terrible, terrible moment best described by the famous words towards the end of the classic Vietnam war film, Apocalypse Now: “The horror......the horror.....”

Please pray for me friends, it may be many months before I can face society again

Easter Shenanigans!!!

Well, Easter has come and gone and I must apologise for being rubbish at updating my blog recently!

Whilst the White Eagle’s don’t get their holidays for another 3 weeks, thankfully they were let out of school for a long Easter weekend which we made the most of, the highlight of which was a trip to Lake Nabugabo. At this point I should probably say that we had a special guest with us, a rather fabulous girl called Sarah from the UK who had come to work with us for 2 weeks.

It was therefore good that we had a trip to the Lake as she was given the baptism of fire that is the journey there and back all crammed into the back of a truck (great fun although I have to say I was a little disappointed at the lack of break-neck speeds which usually go hand in hand with these trips. It seems the drivers are actually starting to realise that there’s something called “speed limits” mores the pity!)

The weather was no less than superb, we slaughtered and munched a whole pig as usual, played volleyball, swam and DANCED! For the first time that I can remember we had the inspired idea of taking the PA equipment and danced like rabid monkeys (some more than others)! My personal highlight was seeing the large frame of Mama Kat being shaken all over the place like a woman possessed by the power of Funk! (you know say!!) All in all, a really rather fantabulous day!

Oh…and with regards to the cheeky little lady that is Sarah Giles, well now, that’s a WHOLE other story, and one probably best left for me to tell in person rather than over the internet!!! ;-)