How d'you catch a gecko?
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 10 November 2009
By: Charlie
The gecko living in my bathroom is getting fatter and fatter by the day, my nice white walls peppered with little black droppings. There's no way he'll ever get back out through the thin gap by the windowframe.
I rarely see more than a flash of him as he darts behind the cistern but the evidence is there. I'm happy to accommodate anyone who likes eating mosquitoes but am getting tired of his idea of home decoration.
Enough already!
But how d'you catch a gecko? Well, let's say don't try it after half a bottle of Waraji (local gin)...
I rarely see more than a flash of him as he darts behind the cistern but the evidence is there. I'm happy to accommodate anyone who likes eating mosquitoes but am getting tired of his idea of home decoration.
Enough already!
But how d'you catch a gecko? Well, let's say don't try it after half a bottle of Waraji (local gin)...Aware that it will rapidly grow thanks to our proximity to the swamp - (er ... nicer than it sounds tho!) - I decided to try and catch the small gecko in the sitting-room and 'release back into the wild'. Now Keith, as I said, if you'd passed me the bit of paper for me to put under it, none of this would have happened! He would not have run off and left his tail stuck to the wall.
A few minutes later and the tail was still wiggling away ...
So there it is I'm afraid: Waraji and conservation do not mix.
(Waraji and tonic however do mix rather well!)
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