Year 3 and Year 2 had a proper Ugandan experience yesterday when they were visited by Ronnie Musabe, the Twinning Project’s ‘man on the ground’ in Uganda.
Ronnie spent the morning with Year 3 reviewing their topic on changing Communities. He was able to answer the children’s questions on the relationship between the villages surrounding Queen Elizabeth National Park and the park rangers, particularly with regards to villagers encroaching on park land to plant crops.
In the afternoon, Ronnie visited Year 2 who have just begun their topic on Uganda. Again, he had many questions to answer and said afterwards that he could’ve been at the school for a week and not managed to answer them all. One of the activities Ronnie carried out with both year groups was to go through the Uganda Boxes that the Twinning Project have collated over the years. The children were able to see some traditional Ugandan toys, instruments and clothing as well as well as more modern materials.
This was a highly successful day from which the children obviously benefitted enormously. Ronnie was incredibly impressed, not only with the children’s maturity, but also with the quality of initial and follow – up questions that the children came up with. He told Mr Stanley that many of the tourists who come to Uganda come nowhere near to matching the children in terms of curiosity.
Everyoneat the Liss Federation would like to thank Ronnie for spending the day with us. When Ronnie returns to Uganda during half term, he will be taking some money with him in order to enable Kafuro to reopen lines of communication with Liss and also some special varieties of tomato seeds for the children to grow at Kafuro Primary School. For those readers of the blog who don’t know, Kafuro is famous throughout Uganda for the quality of its tomatoes, so we think the new varieties will grow really well. We hope to show you photos of the tomatoes later this year.
On Friday, the Liss Federation was represented at the East Hants COP 26 conference in Alton by Mr Stanley, Sophie and Lola. Liss were among many exhibitors at the conference which was open to the general public.
Sophie and Lola talked about all the positive changes that have happened at the school over the last ten years in the fight against climate change as well as the work the school has done overseas with Kafuro Primary School due to our association with the Queen Elizabeth Parks Project and the British Council
The pupils were visited by many different people including Damian Hinds MP. They soon had all sorts of people signing climate change pledges which we will be displaying in school. They were also interviewed for BBC Radio Solent.
There was also an opportunity to visit the main conference room and see some of the speeches as well as some of the other exhibitors. The girls were fascinated by a company called iRED who had a thermal gun. The exhibitors showed them some neat tricks with it.
Everyone had a fantastic afternoon and the girls were an absolute credit to the school.
The Liss Federation display
Trying out some amazing software from the River Wey society
By the end of the afternoon the display board was covered in pledges
Regular readers of this blog will remember how Mr Stanley organised the Kafuro premiere of Queen of Katwe this summer. Upon his return to the UK, he wrote an article for Into Film, for whom he is an ambassador. This article was published today in order to commemorate the Universal Children’s Day.
The article can be read below. Mr Stanley is now starting to think about curating an annual Kafuro Film Festival.
I’ve now been home for 48 hours and had a little bit of time to reflect on this year’s trip. In many ways, it has been highly successful. The Twinning Project organised a very successful celebration of World Ranger Day, Mrs Lodge did some brilliant work with female pupils and reusable sanitary pads and the project have supported the wives and children of rangers. Despite my absence (or some might say because of it), the Conservation Cup was a success again with Kafuro winning for the first time.
I was really pleased with how our work in Kafuro panned out. The children enjoyed Queen of Katwe and wrote good reviews; they loved playing chess; they adored the opportunity to bake; and we discovered a star in Gloria from P6. The fact that we were able to give her the opportunity to come and work at Tembo was brilliant and I’m very grateful to the staff for giving her the opportunity.
One thing was made very clear to me and that is how much the community at Kafuro value the relationship with Liss Junior School. I was constantly being thanked by parents and governors for the support that our children give to their peers. They are well aware that it is Liss children who raise money to support projects and are very grateful for the opportunities it gives their children.
I was able to see some new sights on this trip. The walk around Rwenzori Mountains National Park was exhausting but brilliant; the opportunity to get so close to chimps thanks to the work of Robert was exhilarating and getting to finally see Uganda play a rugby international was a personal highlight.
All in all it was a successful trip, but all the way through I’ve been left with a nagging feeling. Why is there so much plastic waste? Everywhere I went there was plastic bottles on the ground. As far as I can see in western Uganda, there is no infrastructure for any sort of waste management, things just get incinerated which – in the case of plastic – releases toxins into the atmosphere. Every time I’ve been involved in a clean up operation, I’ve been left with a feeling that as soon as we leave a village the rubbish will just pile up again. There have been some innovative solutions such as Ramathan’s recycled elephant at Katunguru, and I would love to see that extended to other schools and villages.
All my reading about Africa has told me that Rwanda is a shining light when it comes to recycling, so next year I intend to cross the border and have a look there. I’m sure there are many things Uganda can learn from them.
Finally, congratulations to Clare Prior and Hamish Henderson, who are the winners of my question competition. Your prizes will be with you soon.
Thanks to everyone who has read the blog this year and I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it.
Crossing the equator on the way home
Lugogo Mall in Kampala is very westernised
Mrs Green meeting with Dr Janice of Kampala International University
In order to allow ourselves a bit more free time later in the week, I had scheduled a number of appointments for today. Subject to confirmation from Yowasi, we were due to meet the District Education Offiver for Rubirizi, Stephen Birru, a man we have got to now well; the District Scout Commissioner; visit Kyambura Primary School; and, finally, drive out to Mahyoro to drop off letters from their twinned school – West Meon.
We had intended to leave at 9.00am, but confirmation of our itinerary didn’t come through until after 10.00am, so we were late in leaving. We were going to pick up Yowasi from New Life Junior School and then get Muhudi (our scouting expert) from his school near to the offices at Rubirizi.
The drive up to New Life was terrible. I was now totally fed up with the useless road surface and the prospect of driving up and down it several times today did not fill me with any joy. An indication of how bad the road surface was duly appeared at Kyambura when we came upon a jack-knifed lorry carrying salt and the drivers and his friends looking dazed at the side of the road. The lorry was still there nearly twelve hours later.
We arrived at New Life to meet Yowasi. When he saw us, he asked us why we hadn’t picked up Muhudi. We discovered that he was at home at Kyambura as he had managed to walk on a nail and had gashed his foot.
After doing some quick filming at New Life, we had to drive back to Kyambura (past the jack – knifed lorry) to pick up Muhudi and then all the way back up to Rubirizi to meet Stephen Birru.
Stephen was in good form and very pleased to see us. He had given Mrs Green the connection with Kyambogo University and was very pleased to hear about her meeting. He was also very interested in the work we had done at Kafuro and was very keen that the school use every means possible to become self-sustainable. He was strongly in favour of introducing a mobile phone chargng service to the school. He even recommended to Yowasi that he install satellite tv at the school and charge local residents to watch Premier League football. Somehow, I can’t see Mrs Myers doing this at Liss!
We had brought a mountain of neckties (neckers) and badges from scout groups all over the UK thanks to the very hard work of Mrs Prior at Liss. The District Scout Commissioner was overwhelmed and could not believe how much equipment she had received. Unfortunately, we had missed a big scout meeting the week before, but the commissioner was going to make sure the equipment was fairly distributed and send photos.
After this really successful meeting, we headed back towards Kyambura to visit the Primary School, which is twinned with Sheet Primary School. On the way, we had to make a couple of stops. The first stop was the Doreen Hotel, which is where Yowasi decided we should have lunch. Mrs Green and I had goar Muchomos. The bill for four of us was £5!
Our next stop was to visit Yowasi’s dad. I have met his mum several times before, but never his dad. Yowasi’s dad is in his 70s (ancient by Ugandan standards) and suffering the aftre effects of a stroke. However, he was very pleased to see us and spoke excellent English. He had heard all about us and wanted to find out about our families.
We got to Kyambura Primary School about 4.00pm where I met briefly with Hope, the headteacher and Moses, the Twinning Project Co-ordinator. This was a very frustrating meeting as both their laptop and their tablet have reached the end of their natural lives, but they didn’t bother to inform Yowasi so we could’ve brought out a replacement. I gave them some money for data and they are going to use Hope’s smartphone to communicate. I felt very sorry for Mrs Newton, the coordinator at Sheet, who has done a brilliant job in communicating regularly. Hope did promise me that she would have letters ready to take back to Sheet.
It was 4.50pm when we left Kyambura and we had an hour’s drive to Mahyoro. This is usually one of my favourite drives because the scenery is stunning, but a) we were running very late and b) it was very cloudy and the light was beginning to close in. We finally made it to Mahyoro at 5.50pm where we were met by the co-ordinator, Julius – the children had gone home an hour ago. I handed over the letters from West Meon while Mrs Green took photos and gave Julius money for internet data. He was very pleased to see us and gave his best wishes to the children and staff of West Meon Primary School.
It was an hour’s drive to Yowasi’s house to drop him off before we finally headed home past the jack-knifed lorry and along the worst road in Uganda. We were so late coming back we had to use the main gate into Mweya (rather than Katunguru) which added 15 minutes to our journey. Add to this rubbish headlamps on our car, clouds of dust, a pitch black night and full beam headlights in my face from other vehicles, and I’m sure that you can understand that I wasn’t very happy by the time we got home at 8.15pm – over two hours later than planned.
The day had a successful conclusion. Joshua, the chef at Tembo, had given us a chicken for visting his school and it was beautifully cooked alongside rice, salad and …wait for it…Irish potatoes. It was a nice end to an exhausting day.
Tomorrow we’re going to visit Katunguru Primary School in the morning and go chimp trekking at Kyambura Gorge in the afternoon.
A little friend at Tembo
I’m sure the terrible road wasresponsible for this accident
Passing on the neckers and badges from UK scouts to the district scouting commissioner
The alarm sounded at 6.30am, but for once I wasn’t reluctant to get up as today was the day that I’d been waiting for a long time…the chance to see the Ugandan national rugby team in action against Zimbabwe at Legends Rugby Club in Kampala. We had packed and left by 7.10am ready for the seven-hour plus drive to Kamplala. The good news was that no elephants decided to delay us leaving Mweya, the bad news was that the car was making an awful noise. We reached Kasese at 8.10am and stopped at the Shell garage for fuel. I asked the staff to have a quick look under the bonnet while the car was being filled up. One of the staff unscrewed the cap for the radiator and his head was nearly blown off by a massive cloud of steam and boiling water. Half a bottle of coolant and several bottles of cold water later seemed to solve that particular problem. Power steering fluid was also topped up and all four tyres inflated. Half an hour later, we were on our way and the car sounded a lot better.
The drive to Kampala was uneventful. We stopped at Fort Portal for forty five minutes to have breakfast, but got to a shopping mall just by the ground at 2.50pm. We were going to meet Steve and Karen Peach, Jan and Rebecca from the Twinning Project along with Ronnie, our erstwhile guide at 3.00pm. To kill a bit of time, Mrs Green and I went into the mall and did a bit of present shopping for family and friends. The mall was very western looking and ample proof of how fast Uganda is changing in some aspects.
The others soon turned up and we collected our tickets from Ronnie. I had bought these several months before along with a Uganda Cranes rugby shirt. I had been after one of these for years and they were only on very limited release, so I was very pleased to get one. When we arrived at the ground, we had to go through lots of security checks, but once we were inside the atmosphere was brilliant. Mrs Green and I had VVIP tickets which meant that we had a table to ourselves under cover at one end of the ground with waiter service. The others were in the stands on the side, which was actually a better view, but also meant that they would fry under the hot African sun.
The game itself was very exciting particularly the first half. Zimbabwe scored after the first couple of minutes and I thought it was going to be one of those days, but Uganda hit back immediately and their fly half, Phillip Wokarach, began to run the show. He is one of those players that you just love to watch because he has so many tricks to his game and he was showing off his full range of outrageous dummies, flicks and passes behind his back. The crowd absolutely loved it and there was all sorts of dancing whenever Uganda scored. There was a man whose sole purpose appeared to be to wind the crowd up with his dancing and blowing a vuvuzela. It certainly worked!
The game was played at a furious pace. Uganda scored some sensational tries and ran out deserved 38 – 12 winners. Mrs Green and I were also delighted to find out that we got some free food as part of our VVIP experience. The waiters came round with big plates of roast potatoes, sausages, chicken wings and samosas which you could help yourself to.
At the end of the game both teams posed for a photo with some children who had been playing tag rugby at half time. Many of the Uganda team started by playing tag rugby, so we are hoping that the Conservation Cup will produce future internationals. We left the ground, said goodbye to Ronnie and the others, who are heading back to the UK, and drove to our place of residence for the next two nights. It’s called Banana Eco Village and is about 15km outside Entebbe. We arrived just after 8.00pm, had a very nice chicken curry and retired for the night. We were both very tired but happy.
Tomorrow is a day of rest and relaxation at the eco village. We’re both looking forward to it!
Today was our first day at Kafuro and it necessitated another early start. We were up at 6.00am and down at Tembo for breakfast just after 7.00am. Joining us for our trip to Kafuro this morning was Mrs Lodge (Rebecca) who has just left Clanfield. She was going to be leading some SRE education about reusable sanitary pads. Lack of adequate female sanitation leads to high absenteeism rates in Uganda, so Mrs Lodge was going to provide some invaluable advice and resources.
The journey up to Kafuro took an hour and twenty minutes; we arrived at the school at 9.30am. Yowasi and Richard, the headteacher, were there to greet us and to sort out the program for the day.
The first activity was a whole school assembly. I had the absolute pleasure of distributing medals to the triumphant Kafuro Conservation Cup team. They were very proud to receive the medals (which had generously been sponsored by CM Sports) and wore their medals all day. I gave a speech relating how important the partnership was to the community at Liss and how the children had raised money through icepop sales to buy various items for the Kafuro children to use. The children absolutely loved the chess sets and were incredibly anxious to use them – more on that later. They were also delighted to receive two brand new tablets especially with the chess apps I had loaded on to them. Larry the leopard was mobbed by the children and we didn’t see much of him during the day as many of the younger children wanted to hold him.
Last year we supplied the Kafuro scouts with uniforms and Mrs Prior had worked tirelessly to secure new uniforms and lots of badges and neckers this year. Muhudi Muwanga, who was the scout leader last year, has unfortunately left the school, but came back specially just for the day. Because there are so many badges and neckers, we are going to meet the District Scout Officer next week to ensure the goodies are distributed fairly among the whole district.
After the assembly had finished Mrs Lodge and Mrs Green went to talk to the girls about the reusable sanitary pads while I went to set up the P7 class for the Kafuro premiere of Queen of Katwe. Steve Peach had provided me with a brilliant little projector to show the film and projected on to a piece of flipchart paper, the quality was excellent. Unfortunately, the sound left a bit to be desired, but so long as the children listened carefully they could hear what was going on.
It was fascinating watching the children watch the film. The Ugandan sense of humour is different from that of the UK so, although the film is fairly serious, they laughed in different places and found things hilarious which had left Liss children cold. Every twenty minutes, I stopped the film and asked the children questions about the film itself or the characters. They were fairly slow to respond because of their shyness. I call this the three-day rule because it takes the children three days to overcome their shyness and start speaking English confidently as opposed to the local Rukiga language. At the end of the film, I asked the children whether they thought it was a true reflection of Uganda and the children were unanimous that it was highly accurate.
For those people who don’t know anything about the film, it is about a girl called Phionah Mutusi finds a way out of poverty through the game of chess under the tutelage of a man called Robert Katende. I have managed to organise a question and answer session over the phone with Robert tomorrow, which we are all excited about.
The children wrote simple film reviews, which covered three aspects:
What the film was about
Their thoughts on some of the main characters
Their overall impression of the film.
Considering that the children had never written a film review before, I was quite impressed with the standard of a number of them; I will type some over the next few days to appear on the blog.
The children were desperate to play chess so we set up the boards, gave them some basic instructions and they were soon away. Some of the children have played draughts quite a lot, so they needed some encouragement to use the chess pieces properly, but they were getting there by the end of the day.
The three of us left Kafuro just after 5.00pm and began the drive home. It was at this point that I received the best news of the day. We saw two surveyors on the Kyambura – Katunguru road who told me they they would be relaying and tarmacking the road properly next month. Although this is too late for this trip, if it means that next year I get to drive on smooth roads, then I will be delighted.
When we got back to Mweya, we went down to dinner at Tembo with the others to share the stories of the day. Safari Ben, one of the rangers had come down to talk to Joe Williams and had brought his sons with him. The eldest was wearing a Farnborough Town top! Mrs Green and I had been talking about Mr Burford during the day because it was his suggestion (before he retired) that we introduce Kafuro children to chess. To see a Farnborough Town top (who Mr Burford supports – some say he obsesses over) was surely not a coincidence, so I took a photo and sent it to Mr Burford. Within minutes, I had a reply from Mr Burford, who just happened to be at a Farnborough Town pre-season friendly, saying how pleased he was that there was a Ugandan fan club and asking where the lad had got the shirt from. Upon asking, we found out that the shirt was bought in Kampala and he was very pleased to have a fellow supporter. By the way, Farnborough won their friendly 3 – 1, so Mr Burford went home a happy man!
Tomorrow we’re going back to Kafuro where we have several meetings planned and we are going to spend some more time teaching the children to play chess.
My alarm went off at 6.30am this morning and getting out of bed was a real struggle. We had to be at breakfast for 7.00am because the events for World Ranger Day started at 08.00am. Breakfast was rolex for me and fruit platter and toast for Mrs Green. She has brought a small pot of marmite along with her. I have to say the marmite is a really nice contrast to the sweet bread.
We left Mweya and drove down to the UWA headquarters at Katunguru. Steve Peach had worked hard with UWA to organise a series of events to celebrate the day and the first was all about corporate social responsibility. This would involve clean ups of a small village just the other side of the equator and Kyambura, about 10 miles back south of the equator. Things soon took a bizarre turn……
Firstly, as we drove north we passed some big bushfires, which covered the road in smoke. This was not pleasant to drive through. We arrived at the equator to be met by a big group of rangers, a brass band and a troop of acrobats. What we were going to do was to walk over the equator in military rank, clean up the village and then walk back again. The same thing would happen at Kyambura. Mrs Green, myself and all the other Twinning Project members joined the ranks and we walked in some kind of strange military Mardi Gras scene to the village while the acrobats performed somersaults, juggled and breathed fire. Any cynicism I might have had was soon blown away as the locals embraced the clean up and were singing and dancing as they cleared up litter. We left the village a good deal tidier than we found it.
The drive up to Kyambura was a nightmare – it is still the worst road in Uganda in my opinion. We gave a lift to Ronald, who is the tourism warden for Queen Elizabeth National Park and he told us that work had begun at the other end of the road, which was supervised by the Chinese. I’ll believe it when I see it. There was a similarly positive response to the clean up from the population of Kyambura and it was really nice to see the police joining in with the UWA and the locals. By now, some of the acrobats were getting a bit carried away. One of them – not satisfied with breathing fire – started pulling a flaming taper all over his body, which got a big round of applause from some of the local ladies. Suitably emboldened, he decided it would be macho put the taper down his trousers. Unfortunately for him, he must have singed his nether regions as he gave a howl and went off to lick his wounds for fifteen minutes. I haven’t laughed so much in ages.
Both clean ups were a great success particularly in getting communities working together with different agencies. The wider issue that Uganda as a country needs to address is how to make waste disposal work effectively and encourage recycling. At the moment there doesn’t appear to be the infrastructure to do this. What happens is that the waste gets incinerated which releases toxins from the plastic and damages the atmosphere. There is still lots of work to be done.
We returned to Katunguru for a set of speeches, but unfortunately the guest of honour was late in arriving so we spent the best part of ninety minutes being entertained by the band and the acrobats again. When they took a break, a selection of country music was played over the PA system. I have to admit that the twenty minute ‘Megamix’ version of Kenny Rogers’ The Gambler had me questioning the existence of God.
The speeches when they finally began were very long and there was plenty of them. Some really good points were made and there were some interesting demonstrations such as how to catch a crocodile – I won’t be trying this anytime soon! We also had the brief spectacle of seeing a twister about 70 metres away, but it wasn’t very strong. By far the best speech was given By Steve Peach who said in five minutes what it took others half an hour to say. Mrs Green and I were both shattered by now and four and a half hours of sitting in the same place gave way to short naps! However, after the final speech and the final playing of the national anthems some food was served and very nice it was too.
The final act of the afternoon was the distribution of loads of ranger kit by the Twinning Project. Steve had organised for loads of kit to be sent down from Scotland and between them the others had managed to transport it out. To say the Ugandan rangers were excited would be a massive understatement and it didn’t take long for all the kit to disappear.
Overall, it was a very successful day and massive congratulations must go to Steve and his team for organising such a successful event. We returned home very tired, but excited about the prospect of our first day at Kafuro tomorrow.
Having gone to bed early the previous evening, I was unable to sleep and woke up at 2.30am. I was really worried about what we would do if our luggage didn’t turn up. We couldn’t stay in Entebbe forever, but at the same time it would be very difficult to drive all the way to Mweya without any of our clothes or equipment.
Mrs Green and I reached the airport at 3.15am, which was the time when the plane with our luggage on should be landing. In typical Egypt Air style, they were half an hour late and the baggage handling company weren’t very helpful at first. I was told to ‘be patient’, but that was the virtue I was least capable of displaying. Eventually, a woman came and took our claim forms. Fifteen minutes later, she returned with a customs officer who wanted to check that what we said was in our bags was true. They were quickly satisfied and we were free to go. So at 4.57am, nearly 48 hours later than planned, we began our journey to Mweya.
I took the drive very easy at first mainly because there was no street lighting and the lights on the car weren’t very good to say the least. Central Kampala was like an ants’ nest even at 5/45am on a Sunday morning, but once we got on to the Fort Portal Road things began to improve. As soon as the light began to get better (at about 6.15am) I really put my foot to the floor and made rapid progress. One of the things I noticed at each town along the way from Kampala to Mudebende was they had erected a display at the roadside as you entered the town which consisted of banana trees, shields and spears. I’d never seen that before and as yet nobody has been able to tell me its significance.
At about 15km from Fort Portal, we ran into roadworks, which slowed progress dramatically. We stopped for breakfast at Fort Portal, which took about 45 minutes before Mrs Green took over the driving on the next leg to Kasese. Despite this being the first time she had driven in Uganda, Mrs Green did really well and was soon speeding along. As much of the road is single lane, a lot of overtaking is required and if you get stuck behind a lorry, it can really slow you down. Mrs Green soon mastered an aggressive overtaking manoeuvre and we made it to Kasese in just over an hour.
Readers of the blog will know that Kasese is one of my favourite places in the world; it’s a bit like the wild west, but everyone is very friendly. We filled up the car with petrol and bought supplies for making pizza and bread for when we go to Kafuro during the week. It was another hour to Mweya and we made it at just after 2.00pm local time. Hippo House was locked so we made an executive decision to go down to Tembo for a beer and wait for the other Twinning Project members, who we assumed were out somewhere. Actually, they were at Tembo and preparing for a tea party for the wives and children of the rangers. We walked back to Hippo House with them and brought them up to date on our adventures of the previous two days.
The rangers’ wives and children soon arrived. Karen Peach had prepared cakes and scones for them, which went down a storm. The Twinning Project had also provided a lot of play equipment for the children’s nursery, so a lot of people were made very happy.
There’s no room for us at Hippo House at the moment as there are nine Twinning Project members staying there, so we are staying in Guesthouse No 1, which is a minute’s walk away. When we got there we unpacked and checked that everything was still intact – thankfully everything was fine.
We met the others down at Tembo for dinner where we discovered that they had had an earthquake this morning, which measured 5.6 on the Richter Scale. Apparently, everyone was terrified apart from Amy Peach – who’s a geologist. She was very excited!
After dinner, most of the others went home, but Mrs Green, Steve Peach, Joe Williams and myself stayed for a couple of beers and took the mickey out of each other. Actually, everyone took the mickey out of me! I did find out that Karen Peach had delivered guide boxes -donated by ex – Liss pupils Milly Henderson and Kayleigh Park – and they had gone down a storm. I’ve been told that there are messages of thanks to be returned to the UK.
Tomorrow is World Ranger Day and we’re due an early start, so going to bed at midnight after a being up in the early hours probably wasn’t the best idea. I’ll report on World Ranger Day in tomorrow’s blog.
Our luggage has arrived. Hurrah!
Mrs Green driving between Fort Portal and Katunguru
Rangers’ children enjpying playing with their new toys
On Saturday, 24 children parents and staff from Liss Junior School took part in the Park to Park Challenge between Staunton Country Park and Queen Elizabeth Country Park. The 8.5 mile route was easily navigated on a glorious day where the sun shone, but it was not too hot. The children led most of the way and appeared to thoroughly enjoy themselves. As well as raising awareness about the work that rangers do in Uganda and all over the world, a significant sum of money was raised for equipment that could support rangers to carry out their jobs in the field.
A big ‘Thank You’ to all the children, parents and staff who attended.
The East family walked at a great pace
Walking along the top of a hill near Chalton
Steve Peach warming up a slow worm
Mr Stanley with Jake, who won last year’s Uganda question competiion and wore his Cranes football shirt along to the walk.
At the start of the walk.
Rapeseed is a common crop at this time of year.
The walkers at the beginning
The walkers having successfully completed the challenge
