SUNDAY  20th April 2014

Today I am not feeling very well - think I overdid it on Friday and Saturday  so I retired to bed at lunchtime to drink lots of water and to read my Kindle only to fall asleep until  6 ish. Had some soup out in the hotel garden with Sallie just as it was beginning to get dark and by  8 pm  felt strong enough to have some tilapia  goujons and mashed potatoes.
The roads were very bad going to Harriet's village on Friday and even worse going out with Janine as she prepared for her American volunteering  Doctors clinics ready for early May. The weather too has been extreme veering from extremely hot to extremely cold during a very heavy tropical thunderstorm on Friday, luckily as we had got back from Rumoungu village.
Getting up on Saturday to go with Janine on her Missionary work in  the villages of Mirya Kalwala and Bweyale I sat on the hotel's verandah waiting for my breakfast and watching the birds.Uganda really is a birders paradise : I saw superb starlings, all glossy and  petrol blue, little  starling like birds and bigger ones all robin redbreasty  but larger and with black and white  badger like heads, there were  sleek  yellow birds and pigeons not to mention the huge marabou storks nesting in the tops of the tall trees across the road Wonderful with my pineapple, watermelon and banana  start to my breakfast!
Even Ruth, who is over here , volunteering with various children's charities before  - hopefully - setting up an orphanage,  is tired, so Sallie has  persuaded her to  stay here in Masindi tomorrow and relax before she goes to Kampala to spend her last week in Uganda  to work in Sanyu Babies Home.
More details tomorrow