thursday needs more napalm

'ning
post-hols ennui continues, may seek out full english to console me, or an m&s mince pie
post-hols ennui continues, may seek out full english to console me, or an m&s mince pie
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
0
Posts
Have a good day
On the train again. May have to organise a Liverpool trip later once my two get up and get their acts together.
Re Liverpool - I suggest make it a weekend, but stay in a village on the way back.........
Anyway driven in need to go to other places later which will be easier to drive to.
Dog walked/swam in the woods/marshland/collection of ponds. Plenty of flood warnings an the back road to civilisation is back under water. More forecast so theres a slim risk of being cut off but heres hoping!
Easty commuter
Tripster AT
Electrician in chez moi fixing couple of irritating faults beyond my capability. Failed low voltage LEDs in shower tiles soon to be replaced and working again; rated IP67, should not have cracked and failed so quickly. When someone knows how to do something properly...happy days.
Me doing chores me.
What game reserve did you frequent SG? How's the wildlife, greenery, water supplies?
Cleaned up shed benches, which were less than tidy.
Easty commuter
Tripster AT
Another day of fun and frolics here. Got the old dear's motor MOT'd at least. Obviously it was fine and dry as I had to drive in. Still car shopping for the female child, maybe I'm being too picky but there are some right dogs out there.
Ordered new bike shed for the front garden so the Mini can be laid up in the garage, should get it by the end of the month if all goes well.
All our university visits are done thankfully, might have to go on a second visit to first choice to decide a few things. Thankfully it's only Sussex. Stevo doesn't have long enough hair to pull off a wet-look perm unfortunately.
Marin Nail Trail
Cotic Solaris
Sparky been and gone, all jobs done, big tick to have those irritants disappeared.
Being picky is needed these days some questionable cars out there.
Easty commuter
Tripster AT
then up north in a 4x4 many hours, once well out of kampala it gets increasingly lush and picturesque
stopped at ziwa sanctuary where they have 'wild' rhinos breeding to rebuild the population, went trekking with a ranger to see some, it was amazing how close we were able to approach them, 4-5m from mother and baby rhino, really a privilege, plenty of birds and other things there too, deer, warthogs
then many more hours into murchison falls national park, stayed at an 'eco lodge', very private, only solar power, no tv etc. bliss, mesh 'walls' and a grass roof with fireflies, right on the edge of the nile, have to get escorted after dark to go in/out of your lodge as the hippos come out then, you hear them squelching around you in the dark
more 4x4-ing for game drive in the park, lions, heffalumps, various deer, buffalo, giraffes, umpteen monkeys, hippos, crocs, birds etc.
took a boat up to the base of the falls then got off and climbed the trail up the cliffs to the top, extremely scenic and no fencing or health&safety to stop you getting stupidly close to raging death
the only real blot on things is that for some insane reason (exchange of $$$ i assume) the chinese are driving a full-on paved highway through the national park, together with a bridge crossing the nile, this replaces a single lane unpaved track, there's also talk of damming the falls, which just beggars belief
construction brings employment to the locals, but ffs why rape the national park? tens of km of trees being felled, pollution, splitting animal populations and blocking their trails, and animals are going to get killed in large numbers by speeding vehicles
great place to visit, the ugandan people are lovely, in retrospect needed much longer, hope to return and take more time
This was in return for some investment. They cleared all of the remaining jungle for the hardwoods.
The problem with the Chinese is that they are answerable to nobody.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/baby-elephants-zimbabwe-sold-china-captivity-zoo-wildlife-drought-a9170886.html