The African Adventures of Team Crow!: A Light Christmas after all!

As you may know from our last blog, Christmas Eve was spent enjoying the peaceful serenity of a power cut – and it made us feel all the more special in that it was only affecting our house and one other. So Christmas morning dawned… a dark and rainy morning, so much so that lights would have been necessary even in daytime.

That morning we headed off with some meat to put in the freezer, and a bucket of stinking nappies to wash at some friends’ house, plus our LED “emergency” lights to charge (which in fact Sarah forgot to bring!).

On arriving, we discovered a totally flat rear tyre, with a nail deeply embedded (so our Christmas Day was so Christmassy, we even missed church – although Noah had great fun playing with a raft of toys at our friends’ house). Not a good start. Moreover, when Tim tried to take the spare tyre off, he discovered that one of the securing nuts wasn’t compatible with the wrench he had, prompting a few choice words, and a trip to another friend who obliged with a tool kit.

However, despite this, we had a brilliant Christmas! The cooking was mastered with the help of a BBQ, gas hobs, and a 30m extension cable routed from a neighbour’s house so that we could at least have roast potatoes, stuffing and broccoli cheese. And just as we sat down to eat, BAM….. the power returned!!!!! This HAS to be a miracle, so we thank the many people who told us they were praying. We didn’t even think to pray such a preposterous thing…. But it turns out that for a God who can inhabit the earth as a human, turn water into wine, heal the blind, and walk on water, fixing the power in Bwala on a public holiday is also not beyond Him! Hallelujah!

We had cunningly decided to put Noah down for his nap a bit late, to afford our guests some baby-free time, but NO, he had other ideas, and woke after 15 minutes with a stinky nappy, and angling for an escape from his cot. In fact, he was quite a delight, and enjoyed impressing our guests with his expanding vocabulary, as well as his less-adorable trick of spitting water out of his mouth (funny the first time, and unfortunately the laughter given to him served to reinforce the behaviour which we are now struggling to eradicate!).

Cow's about that!

Noah's vocabulary is steadily increasing and one of his favourite words is cow, often shortly followed by "moooooooo!" How fitting therefore that the Kitovu Nutrition Unit also enjoyed a good Christmas in the form of this little (or rather fairly sizeable) beauty (see picture below)! She is ready to bless the unit with milk to feed undernourished babies and all thanks to a generous donation from the company of one of our readers!