Hiatus-busting Uganda update

30 July 2008 (11.30 AM)

I’m aware I haven’t written anything substantive for a while, mostly due to our being really busy, and partly due to my not having overcome inertia.

Our Uganda plans are progressing – Kate and I have put together a huge to-do list in spreadsheet form, and we’re slowly ticking off items as we achieve them. One item near the top of the list until recently was ‘buy flights’ – we’ve done that, and leaving on 2nd October.

A recent piece of very pleasing news is that Kate has passed the final part of her exams for membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. This is a big deal: the exams are hard (you need 86% just to pass – suffice to say she did better than that…), and passing them is a prerequisite to progressing in her career as a paediatrician. It’s really great to have her membership confirmed before we leave for Kisiizi.

My first foray into video

15 July 2008 (08.23 PM)

I’m rather pleased. A while ago we bought a video camera and I’ve been playing with it for the last few weeks, trying to decide what I can shoot.

In an earlier post I expounded on the apparent virtues of the Canon HV20. After chatting at length with friends more knowledgeable than me, I decided that it would be better to get a second-hand semi-pro camera than a brand-new consumer one. I think they advised me well: the Sony PDX10 which we’ve bought is fantastic, and (I hope!) plenty rugged enough to withstand life in rural Uganda

PHOTOS

Iron and wood Walking in the Yorkshire Dales Fishpond Dirt roads and hot weather Pembrokeshire 2008 Big Skies in the Little Karoo I love tea Windpump Ferguson TE20 Walking in the Yorkshire Dales

More photos at Flickr