SUNDAY March 20th
Reached Kampala safely with Godfrey taxi driving beautifully.Only saw two accidents on the very fast paved road ,this time. The buses drive at an appallingly fast rate and cows wander into the road and motorcyclist s overtake on the inside........ That was yesterday.We'd had a delayed start with Godfrey taxi looking at Sallie''s ancient pickup before we left Masindi!
Found my friend at her bar.I did not teach Margaret Tinka when I taught at Kyebambe Girls Secondary in Fort Portal, in the Sixties but she is a friend of two of my former pupils. She has a beautiful house here in Sota and a tiny ,dark bar in Bukoto,both districts being suburbs of Kampala. Her two daughters sent to university (one to Cambridge) but both are now married with children good jobs and well placed husband's.Margaret is worried about what to do in the next few years as she gets older. She keeps the bar on because she does not want to sit alone in her lovely house.And I know of at least 4 other educated, widowed ladies in the same position. Intelligent, retired and bored. Another social change Uganda will have to address along with many others.
I have no Internet here, but one of the young volunteers, back in Masindi , showed me how to use "KEEP" and I am writing this on KEEP whilst Margaret gets ready for church. After church we are meeting one of her daughter's and we are taking another relative out for lunch. Maybe I will get the Internet there and will be able to post this!
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