01/01/2013 Almost half past 12, New Year’s Eve, I am sitting in the kitchen with a cup of tea. It is quiet in the house, just a moment alone to melancholically think back to all the events of recent years and to realise that time flies. I’m always a bit emotional on an evening like…

17/10/2012 Hello, everyone, Busy, busy yes, even here in Uganda. I regularly say to western society that we don’t have time for each other, but life here is hectic at the moment. My house is a big mess and it needs to be cleaned thoroughly. The days when I was spinning beads with Maureen and…

10/09/2012 Just one day… Just a day I would like to describe. A day that started at a quarter past five this morning. For the last few days, manure has been dumped on the land we bought. The manure should make the land more fertile, so that we can start planting on it. The land…

12/08/2012 It is 11 o’clock in the evening, I’m sitting in the kitchen and I’m actually still puffing around to start up the computer and to inform everyone again about the ups and downs in the bush. Today the holidays officially started and all the kids are back home again. Gee, they are getting so…

11/04/2012 It is April, April means flying to the Netherlands and celebrating Queen’s Day. A day I am always looking forward to, selling necklaces on the Hoogstraat and then to the harbour for the necessary wines and old acquaintances. This year unfortunately no Queen’s Day in Holland. At the end of March I was finally…

02/11/2011 Ola amigos, (Got Spanish friends visiting…..My Spanish is going forward by leaps and bounds ☺) Finally a new update after 7 months. With stunning views of Lake Victoria, a lovely Sunday afternoon sunshine and a cup of tea I am ready to write about all the beautiful things that happen here. Busy is the…

22/03/2011 In Kampala at the moment where it is raining, raining and raining. The traffic is totally disrupted and I just spent 2 hours in a taxi to get from one place to another, which should have taken half an hour, but we are in Africa and so it never goes as expected. A drought…

06/12/2010 After half a year (part 2) I am way behind with my updates this is from September 2010… The Dutch organisation Be More has been stationed here since last June. They work here together with 7 projects, set up by Ugandans, to which they send volunteers. When they were looking for projects I helped…

01/07/2010 Hello, everyone, So there we are again six months later. Time flies and I couldn’t bring myself to write. A lot has happened and writing is always a self-reflection but also an emotional event so it took a while, but here is a fresh update from the banana trees. The composition in the house…

23/10/2009 A smile from a child………………………………. It rains the corrugated roofs get wet. We have water again. The rain falls almost every morning with buckets from the sky, what a bliss. A refreshing shower under the gutter, all the plants green again, the dust from the roads, many puddles, a leaking roof…..so happy with rain….