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Grasshoppers - eat them or smoke them? Discuss.
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 10 June 2009
A storm had been brewing since an intensely hot morning and a few drops of rain spattered onto my new umbrella as I walked out of the restaurant.Little did I know what I was heading into.
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More Shopping Tales From The Dark Continent
Blog: Don't give up the day job - 5 June 2009
A tale in the same vein as the one where I tried to return three rakes, and only got my money back for the ones that weren't broken...A colleague of ours was telling me a story last week. She wanted to get some skirts made out of the loud, funky Congolese cotton prints that are so beautiful. She'd bought her fabric and found a local seamstress.
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A girl called Kevin: our guide up Mount Elgon
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 18 May 2009
Four days hiking, 48km, a 3000 metre climb - and a damaged knee ligament on Day One!
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Making a Hash of it
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 2 May 2009
Happy May Day Bank Holiday! Feet are killing me this morning. Several hours dancing to the most fantastic African music, after a run round the streets of Kampala with 250 ‘Hashers’ meeting for Africa Hash 2009.
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D Day ... and link to more photos
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 19 April 2009
Well there IS more to life in Kampala than insects but boy are they gonna give over and let me tell you some other news? Well no frankly, not this week.
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Locomotion commotion
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 5 April 2009
Thanks for all the emails and sorry if I haven’t replied yet. I will! I write this blog offline but it’s still taking time to download and reply to individual emails and I’m a bit behind this week after submitting my first proposal. Worked on it most of last w/end and two very late nights / early mornings. It’s for a wee $40k! but couldn’t help but make the same amount of effort as I did with the big Laing PFI bids. UCF directors and Trustees over the moon with what we submitted so fingers crossed we get the grant …
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Uganda in pictures UPDATED
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 23 March 2009
Finally, some photos ... !
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And then there were three ...
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 21 March 2009
Last week was frustrating in many ways ... I know I've hardly mentioned it so far with all the other excitement BUT ... I am actually here to do a job too!
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Dealing with insects (aka Therapy with Simpson)
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 16 March 2009
Am getting the upper hand over the mozzies. Score is 2:1 to them (nights that is) and I'm fighting back but last night came eye to eye with a medium sized Unmentionable at the back of my food cupboard. We had the obligatory game of Chase-Me-Charlie and the little fu**er scarpered. (Julie, this one was definitely called Jayco!!)
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I am fed-up
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 13 March 2009
No internet or office phone, nor promise from provider to solve it any time soon.Feeling fat.Sophie (junior) didn’t turn up to work, nor tell anyone she wasn’t coming in.Patrick isn’t in as his kids have all got malaria.Enid has been telling me about the frustrations of Uganda – inefficiency, protecting their jobs, saying sorry but not trying to address situation, refusing to give name of supervisor, not returning calls, blaming other people etc etcSimpson not here to cheer me up.The sun’s gone in!I have no plans (yet) for
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The First Fortnight (is that all it is…?)
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 8 March 2009
Random notes from my diary
