WEDNESDAY 21st November.
This is my second attempt at writing up my Blog today!
It is chaos here in Doctor's flat in Kampala - the T.V. is blaring, Dorothy Mugenyi has arrived with youngest daughter Brenda, and granddaughter Edith, Evah is both trying to arrange a wedding venue for her friend on the phone and getting the twins (Nalongo's daughters) to try on bridesmaids dresses and Doctor is shouting advice to everyone!
Colin drove 3 of us plus the twins and Fred's daughter back to Kampala yesterday.We left Fort Portal at 11am, loaded to the gunnels and reached Kampala at7pm! We kept stopping to buy bananas , onions ,potatoes tomatoes asnd avocadoes by the roadside and when we reached Mubende at about 2pm we bought little bags of freshly fried grasshoppers, still warm to nibble for lunch!Carrying on to the next biggish town of Mityana we stopped at the shop of one of Evah's many sisters, a nurse and were given a tasty meal of meat stew, matooke and Irish potatoes covered in groundnut sauce! This was about 5pm. We carried on to Kampala and reached the outskirts just before dark. Doctor then did a big shop in Nakumatt Supermarket and we finally reached Kololo and her flat just before 8pm. We found Kampala very hot and sticky so after bathing and a cup of tea I crashed out in bed!
The first picture is of The Royal Musicians who played both at The Introduction ceremony and again at the Reception up on Kabarole Hill after the actual wedding. They are wearing barkcloth whih was worn in precolonial days.
The second one is of a witchdoctor who was part of he Delegation from the Kingdom of Bunyoro who came to pay their respects to The Kingdom of Tooro.
I will try to write up the rest of the Introduction Ceremony on the next Blog.
I am really missing my camera! Baz will bring me Daniel's to use when he arrives on Friday. It is too late for Daniel to buy the professional one for Nebbert on Ebay.I was thinking along the lines of 'give a man a hoe.....". I will see how much thet cost in Kampala.
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