Best Wishes to the Urban Swingers
Just to let you all know I’m thinking of you and with you in spirit.
I’ve spent the afternoon in the Cybercafe which is closed on sundays so I could work on the machines and try to clear the viruses, spyware and Catholic-kitsch screen savers (you would **not** believe!) off them. So I was in the college compound and couldn’t be bothered to unlock the staff room. When the time came, I used the pit latrine. While I was squatting, I was reminded of a story I heard from one of the other volunteers who has been out here a while…
A pit latrine, for those who don’t know, is a hold in the ground with a concrete slab over it. The slab has a hole in it and he hole has a little hut over it. And that’s about the extent of the technology. Sometimes there is a sort of lid thing which it is best to keep closed to keep flies and stuff out.
The story goes like this. A volunteer who was staying out in a very rural area had to go visit the latrine in the middle of the night. She took her big MagLite torch with her, the sort that takes four ‘D’ cells and can be used to illuminate football matches when the flood-lights fail. Somehow she managed to drop her wand-of-light into the boggy deapths of the pit… still turned on. It landed with its handle downward, burried in the bog. The light shone upward illuminating, through the hole in the concrete, the underside of anyone who squatted above.
The batteries last for days!
tygger Says:
Piggie!
Man we missed you - but what a great night! We had some great tunes and great dancers and the atmosphere was just TREMENDOUS! You would have been so proud (and i was not the only one who thought that…). Anyways, our thoughts were with "our man in kenya" … still not quite sure about the sending-letters-to-your-private-parts though
lotsalotsalove
April 19th, 2004 at 1:08 pmtyg
tyg Says:
uuu … piccies up on bunchie site of said event …
http://www.theswingbunch.co.uk/park16.htm
April 26th, 2004 at 12:41 pmMark Says:
Man! That must have been some party: I can’t remember any of it!
April 26th, 2004 at 3:54 pmSophia Says:
Cannot resist saying that I was amazed you fely it necessary to exaplin what a pit latrine was. When I was a child and went camping with the scouts we had to dig them, and cover and dig new ones every day.
Well, here talks the granny
April 26th, 2004 at 7:51 pmMark Says:
Maybe I was wrong to explain it. I only found out through my VSO training. And since then, of course, through experience
A pit latrine can be a dangerous place.
April 27th, 2004 at 3:20 pm