The Ever-Expanding Crow Clan!

Greetings from an ever-expanding Sarah and her faithful beau Timmo.  This month has prompted Sarah to learn a very important luganda phrase: “Ndi omunene alinga enjovu”, which means “I am fat like an elephant”.  For any doubters, here is a photo to prove it!!

On that note, we have been busy researching parenting tips, just in case our chicken Petra was not able to bestow adequate wisdom upon us.  Luckily we happened upon the following book in a local book store, so at least we have options!

Whilst our human family is increasing, so is our animal family, with the arrival of a new baby chick (no, not Petra’s – she is well and truly banned from reproduction for the near future – but a friend from church gave us a new little chick).  We have called her Bam Bam, but alas, like previous chickens before her, she is being bullied by Petra.  After Tim found Bam Bam wandering in a nearby garden with blood on her crest, we decided separating them for a while might be the most sensible option.  It makes us feel slightly less sympathetic when Petra is in turn mauled by an effervescent Jaffie. 

Within the next two months, we shall be heading back to the UK, but rest assured that plans are being made to tend to Jaffie’s needs.  Indeed, we have found three (semi-) welcoming friends at a nearby cafe, and so provided the least friendly of the three resists the obviously great temptation to eat Jaffie, she may be spending the following months playing with her new buddies.

Security-wise, we have been delighted to note that Jaffie has developed a good bark, which comforts us, since we were not that keen to get a night guard.  We feel vindicated in this decision by a sad tale that one of our friends told us.  Turns out that their night guard found their pet rabbit just a little too tempting, and decided to kill and eat her, after giving a small “fillet” to their cat in order to shift the blame.  At least you can trust man’s best friend not to shirk the consequences of their action!

Baby Unit update: well, we’re moving on, awash with new frustrations and set-backs... so we’re moving at glacial pace, of course.  But our preparation is complete, so as soon as we have staff, we will be up and running.  Watch this space!!!

On a final note, we have had a complete revelation this week.  After all these years of us condescendingly shaking our heads when people said “oh is that a banana tree?” whilst pointing at the matooke trees in our garden – well, you were right.  It turns out that matooke is actually.... banana!  We cut down some matooke to see if Sarah could muster up a taste for them, and conveniently forgot about the bunch, and now we have a whole pile of tasty yellow bananas that have ripened over the past two weeks J