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Day 5

The team are split today, for Fearne, Kimberley and myself we've come to another mosquito net distribution. We've continued an evening of laughs with more fun today.

To welcome us and celebrate the nets a team of Ugandan dancers have performed a courtship dance where the best male dancer gets the best female dancer and they marry. They tried to drag Fearne and Kimberley in to the dance but both got very shy and made their excuses. I was at hand with my routine of Biology but oddly they didn't want to know!

Last night was hilarious because yesterday afternoon Chris and Kimberley went to a tv studio to film a segment into a health programme about how to assemble the malaria nets the villagers will have received.

Being one of the most watched programmes in the area everyone envisaged a This Morning style show with a 6 minute piece on how to set up the nets, in fact it was more of an Apprentice task at a shopping channel as they had HALF AN HOUR to fill an interview and a demonstration of assembling a net!

We found a tv that showed the channel in an office last night and piled in to watch. EASILY the funniest half an hour of the year for most of us as Chris (Chris Girls according to the host) replied taxing questions from Allan (Uganda's Jeremy Paxman), such as "why are the nets blue?" "it's a universal colour" - according to Chris (that, and that the Malaria Consortium can track where their nets end up) and "can mosquitos drill through the holes?", Chris: "have you got one and we'll give it a go!". Allan didn't laugh.

Kimberley meanwhile found that the word "basically" can be inserted into the english language as often as "and" and took on the role of fixer assembling the net and working out where all 8 corners went. She had to because Chris backed away at the complexity. Chris explained it was because there were 'too many cooks' and it had nothing to do with the difficulty of the net itself!

Unfortunately Kimberley has threatened our budding friendship and Chris has simply promised me a castration if the video finds itself on YouTube so bar a few pics floating around Twitter (see @fearnecotton for details) I have no evidence of this visual delight.

Chris' day however isn't going to be as much fun. Today Comic Relief have taken him to a hospital where children with malaria are being taken.

Following my seriousness on yesterday's blog it's nice to have laughed so much since then and to feel much more positive today, but I'll be catching up with Chris in a couple of hours so it's possible this positivity won't last long.

Aled
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