Jean

With my cousins in Orkney - @ The Bu

Frances & Connor

Hide & Seek at The Bu ('round church')

Jean's definitely the underdog here

Connor

Brown eyes and blue

Jean & Connor

And I saved the best til last...

With my cousins in Orkney: An afternoon with Felicity

Felicity is the family's 1983 Volvo 240. She is very cool. Here she is arriving at Scapa beach...

And here's Frances trying to encourage Felicity to go for a swim...

But Felicity, all 1,000kg of her, wasn't budging.

Not even when Jean got cross with her.

Frances

...and Jean.

The End.

An afternoon on the train tracks

OK, so the last day in March, we decided we'd walk along the train tracks right to the end, to Port Bell, on Lake Victoria. Now, train tracks are rather different in Uganda than in the UK - there's no fences for one thing, no live rails, everyone just walks on them - they often provide a convenient link between one place and another...and the trains are slow and loud, so plenty of warning and no chance of getting run over! It took just over an hour to get to Port Bell, and was fun...met some friendly people, including some locals who invited us to join them in drinking waragi (local brew)...which we declined, seeing as Christians don't drink alcohol in Uganda...

Setting out...

Just Megan :o)

Fairly typical Ugandan houses...

Us girls, at Port Bell

A couple of kids we met at Port Bell. Fishermen in background...

A long way home

We met some girls on the way home, who'd been out collecting palm fronds for Palm Sunday, the next day. They walked with us a lot of the way home, and Leah took some photos as we parted company...

View of sunset taken just as we arrived at home. Port Bell can just be seen as the glimmer of blue water to the left of the palm tree...

Tanzania!

In mid-March Leah, Megan and I travelled to Tanzania for 5 days to visit Tanya. This involved a long overnight 20 hour bus ride via Nairobi in Kenya before we finally reached Tanzania.

This photo was taken on the road soon after we crossed the border into Tanzania.

Another road photo, but with some mountains visible in the distance - one of which is Mount Meru - on the left I think...a mountain close to Arusha, where Tanya lives

On our second day in Tanzania Tanya drove us around Arusha National Park...we saw a few wild animals, but the most impressive part of the park was the amazing scenery, and the massive Ngurdoto crater with herds of buffalo on the crater floor. This photo is at a viewpoint above the crater, Leah Megan and Tanya (Left to Right) taking photos of the crater....