The visit to the Rhino reserve was wonderful. The journey back, however, was not so great.

There was an accident about 45 minutes before we reached Bombo and the traffic each way came to a stop. We couldn’t see what happened as the accident was some way ahead of us. We had been in the bus for several hours by this stage and some of our party were in urgent need of a toilet break. Becs disappeared round the back of a house chaperoned by Ibra. As others came off our bus Ibra asked a lady who lived by the road whether some people could use her toilet and she generously obliged. Her facilities were rated much higher than those we had visited this morning.

In the end we think we were stationary for about 2 hours. We stopped in bright sunshine and set off again in the pitch black. After dropping Robert off we continued into Kampala, reaching the hotel about 10. It was a long day but worth it.

I wrote a few days ago about how patient people are when queuing for a doctor. Not quite the same when queuing in traffic!

Sunday morning dawned bright and sunny and we had a relaxed start before setting off for Bombo about 10.15. It feels as if it’s going to be a very hot day and I have taken special care to cream up well.

We passed by the Tick Hotel, Hotel Passions and the Venom Guest House – the mind boggles if you put those 3 together.

11.30 and we arrived at Bombo: the service was in full swing and there were probably 300 people there.

Sarah Bunjo was leading the service and it was as always a world apart from what we’re used to. People danced and sang in the way that only Ugandans can.

Then it was our turn and we moved into our service of readings and reflections followed by 4 worship songs. Communion followed and we celebrated Shakirah’s birthday with a beautiful cake with a bright red filling. Simon and I nearly lost our eyebrows trying to light the large multi coloured sparklers on the cake.