Thursday, March 02, 2006

Crossing, drink and go go go.

1. Seeing elephants swimming across the river.

2. Free bars on boats.

3. Watching Iris terrorising young men from outside our group. Iris is 68 and says she is growing old disreputably and that ‘It’s all talk, darling.’ She is fitter than the rest of us and has about twice as much energy and when she is not appreciating beautiful men she bounces around or races up and down hills, making me feel positively matronly.

Livingstone, Zambia

End at the beginning, whistler and no pressure.

1. To start the day by finishing a book. 2. I'm sure we knew that the emergency kettle is a whistling one; but we'd forgotten since ...