• “Mummy, they were chopping him up like this:” Myron says going into a re-enactment. Well, that’s not exactly what happened but he was [...]

  Mummy, they were chopping him up like this…

  26/05/2018
• During my morning jog yesterday (by the way that is an anomaly at the moment, not a habit); I stopped outside our local cathedral to chat with [...]

  Misjudgement, killing and confession

  10/05/2018
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  ‘These women are coming for your books’ – The strange story of the Gulu Prison Library

  09/05/2018
• Today we took a detour in the labyrinth of the main market. Dan was on the hunt for shorts and look what we stumbled upon! We tipped out a crate [...]

  Market score!

  05/05/2018

• We haven’t talked in our household about our skin colour being different; we wanted to wait until this came out naturally from Myron and [...]

  I’m different

  01/05/2018
• Myron: We can share because we’re friends… I’m sad because we’re taking Aunty Debs back to her home… Mummy, when [...]

  Thanks for visiting Aunty Debs!

  14/04/2018
• Five years ago I was teaching remedial reading/phonics lessons in a local government primary school in Gulu (Layibi Techo). I was using my UK [...]

  A learning journey about learning

  01/04/2018
• In between teaching, making resources and hanging out with Myron we can sometimes be buried in paperwork. Our latest paperwork victory is the [...]

  Paperwork approved!

  31/03/2018

• On Friday when waiting outside the judge’s chambers, inside the empty courthouse and even inside the judge’s chambers for the ruling, [...]

  Emotional imbalance

  25/03/2018
• A few friends of mine said that one of the things they love about this blog is that we write regular posts. Hmmm… three posts in one day is [...]

  Let’s party!

  23/03/2018