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  We couldn’t believe that anything could top Makakatana, but Phinda did.   Great accommodation, with a plunge pool at each room. super service and food (too much). We had awesome rangers, Andy and Eric, and their trackers, Sibu and Mr M. Very knowledgeable but also fun. Nothing was too much trouble.      

Marion and I were so lucky to have been able to take all the English family on Safari earlier this month. We were actually 4 days late leaving USA (it took a total of 93 hours to get from Charleston to Johannesburg, another story), but arrived in time at Makakatana game park in KwaZuluNatal to

Marion Wier passed peacefully a few days after his 74th birthday. He had a rare disease for which he had a successful bone marrow transport 15 years ago, but it came back with a vengeance and unresponsive to medication. He bore his illness with the grace that typified his life. His oldest son, Alex, wrote

Modesty has prevented me from previously blogging or bragging about my fishing talents. Truth to say that they have been somewhat hidden, but class has a way of finding its way to prominence. I am proud to announce that my team – the MagniFISHant seven– was on the podium yesterday when the prizes were awarded

I have been hankering after an electric car for some time. I got one of the early Prius hybrids in 2003 and enjoyed it until passing on to my grandson. It is still running to this day. After looking into electric cars a few years ago, I gave up for several reasons. No room in

  Jodi got there first, with her first grandchild             And then Andy did it, with a lovely family party and a little Irish golf And now Nicky and Tripp. Nicky had a smart dinner at a famous restaurant near their home in Bucks, UK (near Oxford). Looks like fun  

Dorcas and my older brother John came to visit. Dorcas and I go back to the late 1960s when she typed our early endoscopy reports at St Thomas’s Hospital in London. Happily she agreed to be my main admin support when I joined the medical staff of The Middlesex Hospital in 1973, and also supervised

My former wife, Patricia, died peacefully at our son Andy’s home in Bury St Edmunds, on October 15th. Her lungs gave up. Paddy and I met and were married when I was still a student, in 1960, and built a family together for 25 years. Sadly, our relationship did not survive my career move to

The last 2 weeks have been eventful! We spent 2 nights at the wonderful Swag Country Inn in the North Carolina mountains. The purpose was to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary (September 28th), which we did in style, helped by 7 other special Deweesian couples. The Swag (www.theswag.com) is an amazing place,  hosted for ever by