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It is Hero’s Day here in Uganda and we were invited to join some Aussie friends at a ‘cook off’ competition in Kampala amongst various local business.

It was a lovely day, pleasant and mild with lots of warm sunshine and delightful people to mingle and talk with. The live jazz music was simply a treat to listen to and enjoy. As the judges were judging (sampling) the food, we the crowd, eagerly watched their every move and listened to their comments and responses and when they had judged each group we were able to also sample some of the cooking and some of the cooking was truly, truly delicious.

Amongst the crowd were some reporters from the various newspapers and magazines and the TV reporters doing their takes amongst the contestants. What caught our eye most was a newspaper reporter who was more interested in how many bottles of beer he could consume without being noticed rather than concentrating on the competition. We followed him after we spotted his hand shooting in between the crammed bodies around the tables and taking the beers off the tables, these beers were reserved for the judges and other officials. He got away with it too, no one else it seemed was aware of what was going on and we did not have the heart to say anything, after all he must have been very thirsty with all his taking of notes for his article. It is to be noted he talked to us and told us his occupation and reason for being there BEFORE the judging took place. However, during the course of the afternoon it did come to our observing eyes NO NOTES were taken but many bottles were hastily consumed.

Some may even use this example as evidence that men cannot multitask, if that is so, at least we men can say we persist at the task we”re at! He certainly was persistent at his task.

It will be make very interesting reading in ‘THE CITIZENS newspapers report next week, I cannot wait to read it.

This is our Uganda, these are our people, this is our home.

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