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Wild life

Wild life

16 July 2016

9:00 AM

16 July 2016

9:00 AM

Gilgil, Kenya

 
At our Gilgil hut in the Rift Valley I’ve had a new flower garden planted to welcome my wife Claire home from England. Here at 7,000 feet in Africa, temperate and tropical species grow together: roses and aloes, pears and bananas. In midwinter, when she went under the knife, I was back in Kenya, trucking in gardenias, honeysuckles and hydrangeas.

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