Part of furnishing our home means buying some of the major appliances we need - like a refrigerator, a washing machine, and an iron (anything that is dried outside must be ironed to kill the mango-fly larvae that may have been laid on the clothes as they dry).  Such items are expensive - mostly imported from South Africa by truck I think and who knows where they may have come from before arriving in South Africa.  I think our fridge is Italian.  Regardless of where they come from, none of them seem to come from Uganda or Britain.  So none of the electrical plugs are the right ones!  They are all the right voltage but it is widely accepted that anything you buy that you have to plug in will not have the right plug.  The store is supposed to hand you a plug when you leave to put onto your appliance.  Then you cut the existing plug off of your brand new appliance and wire on your Uganda plug. Crazy! Krista was pretty nervous as I wired our brand new fridge. I was a bit offended. I am an electrical engineer after all. She had no faith in me. Or maybe it was the expensive fridge she was worried about. Anyway, it works fine – I wired it correctly.  It's kinda like us.  Even when we look good, shiny and clean, we have inherited and perpetuated a fundamental flaw - one that someone else has to fix for us to function properly at all.  Praise the Lord for the loving fix He brings fresh every day!   -Shauen