Bitterjug’s blog

As the countdown to my leaving Kenya continues, so we get to tick off some of the items on my to-do list. The latest being to put Holy Rosary College on the web.

The whey is still in the fridge, anyone know what it’s good for?

Seeing Drew’s comment on the Kingoti entry reminded me about this which I saw while I was up there watching the acrobatic dances.

Someone had taken a car speaker and mounted it in that big plastic bucket. The stereo had external speaker jack sockets already so they plug the big speaker in and hey presto, a […]

When we arrived the group was sitting under a tree […] but they soon began dancing.

‘Lash up’ is a term my dad used to use to describe some piece of work that was shoddily done to the point where more work would be needed on account of the work than on account of the problem it was trying to solve in the first place. He used to ‘dish up’ (fix […]

I was struck by this term, vulnerability. Someone who has that mindset is certainly vulnerable and there are many examples of such people being taken advantage of:

Here we go in a little 18 seater plane from Nairobi to Lamu. The first part of that journey, from Kampala to Nairobi, was a kind of extended torture, as I described in the comment on the earlier entry. It cost about $10 and lasted 16 hours…

…this flight cost almost three hundred dollars and […]

I’m splitting these pictures up into sets as there are so many. Here are some from a happy trip Jackson and I took to Entebbe Zoo.

Jackson inspects a Jack Fruit.

I dunno, some sort of antelope? Pretty though.

“Get a pencil and work it out”
What happens if these monkeys get too cheeky…?

Do they get fed, whole to […]

Have a gander at these photos from my Christmas trip to Kampala.

Kampala is built over 7 hills, one of which used to be home to Impalas and gave the city its name or so Jackson tells me. The hill in the distance on this picture has a new large mosque under construction on it. Others […]