THURSDAY 20TH DECEMBER 2012
We arrived back in U.K. yesterday morning at 7:30am after a long and tiring flight with Ethiopian Airlines that included a 6 hour stopover in Addis Ababa.Both Baz and I tried to stay awake until the evening but after  supper cooked by Daniel I gave in and was asleep by 9pm! I didn't wake up until 10am today and spent the time sorting out dirty clothes, phoning family and opening Christmas cards! Oh and a little TESCO shopping....
MONDAY we spent being shown around Uganda Christian University which I knew as Mukono Theological College back in the  sixties and before that it was Bishop Tucker College for the training of priests. It began as a thatched mud and brick building staffed by CMS missionaries. Whilst we marvelled at the state of the Art science labs being built with American money and loved the huge library complex that includes the latest ICT  equipment, we 5 Brits on the tour felt very sad at the demise of British influence.I personally am not very much in favour of the very rightwing American evangelican views...... Nevertheless the university is a beacon of excellence in Uganda and of great educational value.
Baz of course had never before  been in the company of so many  Bishops and Archbishops and to be honest neither had I! We  became especially friendly with the Bishop of The Horn of Africa who is based in Ethiopia but whose diocese runs all the way up to and includes Egypt. and did I mention that I had my picture taken on Sunday with The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu? I hope the guy who snapped us on his mobile phone forwards it to me! We weren't allowed to take cameras into the Enthronement ceremony and after witnessing the media scrum at the wedding of Princess Ruth Komuntale earlier I was happy to adhere to that rule.
Talking of princesses, I must  mention (boast????) that Princess Elizabeth Bagaya joined us at The Good African Coffee Shop on Tuesday morning as I was saying goodbye to my friends before catching the plane home. She insisted on giving Baz and me a lift in her Official Car with Official Driver, to Entebbe Airport!
We sailed past the traffic and checkpoints and Car Park barriers, were whisked through immigration and chatted to the Italian Ambassador in the VIP Lounge! And caught the plane by the skin of our teeth!!!!
Well, the adventure stops here and I must go into school tomorrow to share some of the details with the children and Staff.