Gone fishing

The newest addition to the fauna in the house was this lovely scorpion. Apparently they are not that common here in Uganda and this was the first time our collegues had ever seen one. This brings the list to: Scorpion, Mice, Bats, Cats, Hedgehogs, Lizards, Spiders, Rats, Frogs and millions of flies. Who needs a national park when you've got a zoo in the house. Me preparing to get rid of the bats in the attic.

We found some canned Carlsberg on sale in the local supermarket. Either it had expired, Carlsberg is not nearly as good as I thought it was or Turkey makes worse Carlsberg than other countries.

Everything is manual in Uganda, we even have to grind our own meat for the pizza! Thank god Pamela had one.

Pork in Pamba with Lavera (from Texas) and Rosa (from Holland). This would be around the 50th time we've had pork there.

The garden sometimes needs maintainance and of cource there is no chainsaw, only the "slasher."
We decided to go fishing in Lake Kyoga the other day. Which basically means buying some nylon, hooks and bait at the market, tying it to a stick and find some random guy to take us out on the lake.

It was quite beautiful. Even though Lake Kyoga is not nearly as big as Victoria it still looks like an ocean.

In the bait bag we found this freakshow. Apparently it was cought at the exact moment of trying to swallow another fish whole.

Harpa was very patient. The boatman had cought some 6 small fish, while we had nothing!
Finally I cought this bad-boy! For you fishermen reading, the boatman forbid us from letting it go.
Later that day we has a BBQ with some friends. Rosa, Marcy from the East Coast, Eric from Alaska, Lavera and that is our neighbour Alice.

The BBQ Queen!

The fish I cought was quite tasty as you can tell by my expression.

The food was excellent.
The gin and juice was a hit!

The food was a hit!

The icelandic music was a hit!

This funny fellow is called Megas and he (or she I don't really know yet) is the latest addition to the birdlife in our compound. Soon we plan to put up ads for bird-watching tours around the house. Megas is perhaps one of the ugliest creatures found on this planet and also one of the noisiest. We plan to murder him soon.

Megas is quite the troublemaker, firstly he leaves enormous droppings all over our front porch and secondly he likes to drink every basin of soapwater he can find.

While on the field the other day a local witch doctor threw these branches at me and told me it was a beneficial spell. If he hadn't told me he was a witch doctor I'd have thought he was a drunken buffoon looking for hand-outs, but he did tell me he was a witch doctor, so...