I sip water, eat a few crackers, doze a bit, wake up and do both again, several times before I get in the door. I then set up a table next to my bed with a pitcher of iced water, a glass with a flex straw and a bowl full of Club Crackers. I doze in bed but tend to wake up off and on, never getting into a deep sleep.
Entebbe. Often used as a retreat from busy Kampala, colonial Entebbe lies on the peaceful shores of Lake Victoria. Home of the only international airport in Uganda, it provides an attractive welcome to new visitors and a good way to âacclimatiseâ to Africa. The word âEntebbeâ means âseatâ in the local Luganda language, thought to be as this is where the Baganda Chief sat to adjudicate legal cases.
The personal name was recorded in 1202 as Dobbe filius (son of) Inonis in the Assize Court Rolls of Lancashire, and one Dobbe de Deneby appeared in the Assize Court Rolls of Yorkshire in 1219. The s at the end of the surname indicates a patronymic, son of Dobb. The surname itself first appeared in the late 13th Century, (see below). One William Dobbe appeared in the Hundred Rolls of Norfolk in 1275, while the Hundred Rolls of Oxfordshire mentioned a Robert Dobes in 1279.