Incubators and Uganda

Hi Everyone!

We are now in sunny Uganda. We've been here just over a week. We are staying with Pastor Stephen and his family, in Lungujja, near Kampala. They have 7 children and 5 nieces and nephews who they look after since their parents died. We have really enjoyed being part of this busy, children full household. they are looking after us very well.

Uganda is a very green place. Feels much more like home than the other places we've been. I think because it is so green. It has rained a couple of times since we've been here. Ugandan rain makes British rain look like a mere amateur! 20 minutes, and the road outside the house is more like a river than a road.

We're doing all sorts of things here. Catherine has done some training in speech and language for the teachers, Andy has done some drugs work with some teenagers, as well as some training of one of the teachers in how to teach some science topics and some science teaching with kids.

We have also been building an incubator!!! The plan is to hatch their own chicks. Pastor Stephen told us when we arrived that one of his plans was to buy an incubator. he told us how much it would cost and we said we didn't see why it shouldn't be possible to build one for far less. So some internet research and a bit of basic science later, and we have an incubator. Getting the fertilised eggs is proving more tricky. The roosters we put with some hens were seriously hen pecked. By this morning, they were hiding in the rafters of the chicken house, trying to escape the hens!!!! Pastor Stephen is planning to buy a real... rooster this week.