You know you're back in Uganda when ...

1. The guard greets you on arrival back home and helpfully carries your heavy suitcases up 6 flights of stairs.
2. Cash not cards - no more chip and pinning for a while!
3. You invest in a serious amount of candles in preparation for the power cuts that are planned to take place every other day until the water levels rise in the Nile so that enough electricity can be generated to meet demand.
4. The house is spotlessly clean when you get home from work because the magic washing up and cleaning fairy has been in.
5. You are told that you are looking very fat by a colleague - and this is meant to be a compliment. So glad I bothered to run 4 times a week throughout the holiday ...
6. You don't recall adding black pepper to your meal ... then realise that's because weevils took residence in your bag of opened pasta during the holidays.
7. It takes over half an hour to drive a 500 metre stretch of road to the shopping centre.
8. The shower of rain at lunchtime is so heavy that 5 colleagues prefer to stay squished inside a tiny Rav 4 rather than risk a soaking.
9. You have to slam on the brakes whilst driving on a roundabout.
10. The screech of seagulls has been replaced by the incessant howling of dogs and the cacophonous caw of hornbills!

Oh Uganda!