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Tales of a Nature Lover: wildlife dramas unfolding daily around our home in the Kenyan wilderness: the challenges and delights of a woman living in the middle of nowhere, with only elephants, crocodiles and hippos for neighbours...
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14th September 2008 : Making a Bee Line...
There is a four o’clock flower (so nicknamed by us because its flowers don’t open until the afternoon - its real name is abutilon mauritanium) which has self-seeded next to the baobab tree by our ...
30th June 2008 : A Glorious Morning...
Even though it’s already a couple of weeks ago, I have to tell you about the hour we spent down on the beach between seven thirty and eight thirty on the morning of June 17th. It was one of those...
18th June 2008 : Oldies & Newbies
Our internet has been down for two days, and now is coming on and off sporadically...this is NOT helping with my intention to catch up on a whole range of stories. For the same reason, I apologise for...
21st May 2008 : Homecoming
How changed is our river: the view upstreamClick any image to enlarge Looking downstream from the house What a feeling it was, having arrived home after dark on Saturday (to the nighttim...
20th May 2008 : Playing Catch-Up
Via Nairobi, London, New York, Nova Scotia, New York (again), London (again), Birmingham, Leeds, Scotland, London (yet again) and Nairobi (again), Ian and I are finally back home at Kulafumbi, over...
29th March 2008 : Of Hippos and Thieves...
Raided beehivesClick any image to enlarge Completely destroyed... Wasted honeycomb... I’ll start with the bad news. Over the full moon, which fell on the Easter weekend, our beehives ...
19th March 2008 : Honey and Big Skies
Written last night but was too tired to post, so here we go now... Look at this feast! Today our trusty beehives delivered this bounty, despite there being rather a shortage of bees around this y...
23rd February 2008 : A Gruesome (yet fascinating) Tale
Can anyone guess what this is? Believe it or not, this is a hornet’s nest - yes, that's the insect that looks and stings like a wasp. A pair of hornets had built this mud nest in our solar p...
22nd January 2008 : Snakes & Lizards
It was a snake day today – as I nipped outside to photograph this big crocodile who looked in total ecstacy sunning himself on one of the sandbanks below our balcony, I almost trod on a Speckle...
21st January 2008
Today was the most extraordinary day: perfect temperature, cool (for this part of the world anyway) but sunny, clear and dry, with a freshness in the air. The river was already fairly high at midday....
9th January 2008
Yesterday, we went for sundowners with our friends on this beautiful great big rock on the edge of the Yatta Plateau. It meant crossing the Athi River which can be tricky. There is a rudimentary concr...
18th December 2007
This day belonged to the wild flowers, which are blooming all over Kulafumbi – both in the house and without - to the extent that parts of the property now resemble a jungle (above). It's hard t...
17th December 2007
It looks like the rains have come to an end – over the last day or so, there has been a definite drop in the intensity level of the plants – they’re not quite as bright and vibrant as they were ...