Some people acquire nicknames during their lifetime. Sometimes they come about for logical reasons. For myself, mine was Charlie, and came about because of the years of Aid work that I did that required the use of military call signs over the radio. My initials of CH became Charlie Hotel, and it stuck. Tigger is…
Twenty plus years ago, my sister and her then boyfriend decided to “elope” to Bali for a small private wedding, an event that we, as the rest of her family, deemed it compulsory to gate crash. So there we were more than 20 years ago, wondering how to fill our time….shopping, eating, white water rafting,…
I have always admired those who have dedicated their lives to wildlife. Louis Leakey’s “girls”: Dianne Fossey, Dr Galdikas, and Jane Goodall, were who I dreamed of being. They, amongst others such as George Adamson, were my heroes as I was growing up. I devoured all I could about wildlife in general and Africa in…
And so we moved from being in my dream location on a private game farm in the middle of the bush of South Africa, to the 30th floor of a condominium in the middle of Johor Bahru town, Malaysia. …