There is something appealing about the often unexpected victory of these young women: fighting crime in spectacular fashion against all odds.
I may no longer be young, but I do still enjoy a challenge reminiscent of the Girl Power flaunted by "Charlie's Angels"!
Recently, while all the men were working and while my friend's husband was away, four of us ladies, plus a granny and a toddler, took on the challenge of "Removal Ladies"! My friend was moving from one side of our local town to the other and needed some extra hands.
We had one morning, two vehicles and some extremely bumpy, bad roads to navigate.
Three out of four of the Removals Ladies, plus Granny and Toddler! Getting ready to move another load in one of the cars....
Most of the packing had already been done by the time I arrived and one load of goods had already been moved from the first property to the new house, but there was still plenty to do!
Dismantling beds, emptying the fridge, trying to squeeze as much as possible into the 2 cars available... then bumping along the muddy tracks from the old place to the new...
Carrying all the furniture up the stairs to the new place, then reversing back out of a very small parking space and extremely narrow gateway onto a slippery, muddy road. Returning to the old home and repeating the process...
It was quite the morning!
One of my favourite memories will be the dreadful noise that the gas cooker made as it protested noisily all the way from the old home to the new! A jangling of metal, a crashing of doors opening and shutting, the shaking sound of knobs and buttons shifting about and even falling off the oven-top! My friend tried to steady it with one hand, whilst clinging to her toddler with the other, but the stove wobbled furiously about the vehicle every time we crashed over a pot-hole. And there were many of those! I tried to drive as carefully as I could - but a Prado can't defy gravity!
Thankfully, the gas-cooker arrived mostly intact, minus one of the stove-top buttons. A fault which is hopefully fixable.
At the end of the morning, the lady of the house, a friend, another MAF lady (Sarah) and myself were able to stand back and see the happy results. Granny and the toddler approved too! Most of the goods, the bedding for that night, the kitchen equipment and even the family car had all been safely moved. The new home was ready to be organised and settled!
Later, an actual professional removals company would be moving the fridge, bookcases and adult beds from one building to the other. But for now, us girls had done the best we could. A fun and satisfying morning of Kampala Girl Power!
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