Family Affairs and Other Matters...the ongoing drama of navigating single parenting and life in London, supported by wine, theatre, travelling and friends.

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    ZAMBIA
    January 15, 2013

    My brother has put a video together of our pilgrimage to Zambia. The one my two brothers and I did in September to take my father’s ashes back, at his request to his spiritual home at The Victoria Falls. The […]

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    ZAMBIA – THE LAST GREAT WILDERNESS?
    October 18, 2012

    Is Zambia the last great wilderness? Finally then, a brief summing up of our incredible experience whilst the memories of that vast, dry, cracked, almost prehistoric African bush are still fresh. Where you feel intensely alive and completely awestruck by […]

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    LOWER ZAMBEZI VALLEY
    October 3, 2012

    DAY 6 OF OUR AFRICAN ADVENTURE 5.30am is our wake up call for our game drive – which is of course high on the priority list if you are in this area. If you want good game viewing then The […]

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    THERE’S AN ELEPHANT IN MY BATHROOM!!
    September 30, 2012

    DAY 5 OF OUR AFRICAN ADVENTURE AND THERE REALLY IS AN ELEPHANT IN MY BATHROOM!! It is our first night at Chongwe River camp situated on the banks of the lower Zambezi and I am sleeping on my own in […]

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    CHONGWE RIVER CAMP
    September 27, 2012

    DAY 4 OF OUR AFRICAN ADVENTURE We leave Livingstone and fly to Lusaka in a small Proflight aeroplane stuffed full of large Americans and one vomiting child. I have to say the Proflight team seem very efficient – we didn’t […]

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    BACK TO AFRICA
    September 5, 2012

    Well, the timing couldn’t be worse. Having booked our “take our father’s ashes back to Africa” trip about a year ago I hadn’t anticipated that my son would be changing schools and that really I should be around for his […]

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