Starting to fill in with a waterfall which still needs more work as I gradually fill in round that area. What I am visualising and what I manage to do, we will have to wait and see.
Life in Africa.
I have been reading a book written by one of my favourite authors, Tony Parks who manages to take me back in time, to when we lived out in Africa. I recognise some of the places and towns he writes about, can smell the dust he churns up in his stories. The love and the fear of the country. Yes, Africa is always in my heart, even if we did not settle for life out there.
I am often asked apart from childhood how I met my husband Klaus.
After injuring my back whilst nursing in England I had flown out to Zambia where they were living whilst my father finished his work contract there. He had been offered a job in Malawi which was a more stable and friendlier country at that time.
We settled in Lilongwe but there was no work for me there, so I applied and was accepted as a theatre nurse in Salisbury Central hospital, Rhodesia, as it was then. now of course it is Zimbabwe.
I had heard from my mother that a bachelor had moved into a house in their road, quite dishy I was told. My back went again and after being operated on was advised to retire for awhile.
I flew back and arrived home after a flight to the main airport, and then a short one on a old fashioned one with a couple of local people, several cane baskets of chickens and a gaping hole by my feet with the rivets and nuts bouncing around when we hit air pockets. Funnily enough I still love flying!
I managed to get a little job in the local bookshop, whilst I was considering my future. Klaus came in for a card and I asked him for a lift home as my father was working late and there was no such thing as buses tor taxis to use. Yes, I made the first move. Well, we did live a few miles up the hill and it was pouring with rain, and it can bucket it down out there. A lot of the time just dirt roads.
We chatted on the drive up, and arranged to meet at the sports club for a farewell drink to a friend.
Klaus brought my mother and me home leaving dad to prop up the bar a little longer. We arranged for that week-end to go out on a date...... Well who wouldn't with a bronzed blond hunk in a short safari suit. Those legs muscles!
Showed Klaus this photo and he didn't recognise himself!!
GOURDS.
Have sold a few of our gourd lamps recently so packed Klaus off to the shed, was kind enough not to lock him in!, to create some more gourds and look with what he came up with.
Another animal carved lamp and two swans. I have fallen in love with the little swan. Oh well, 'That Nice Shop' in Polis where I help out and exhibit, will be having them for sale.
Sorry this little swan I am keeping, fell in love with it, so it's mine, mine!
Klaus is now trying to make another swan, which will be the last one as we have no more correct shaped gourds for them.
No more gourd seeds planted this year as we are hoping to sell our beautiful and loved home due to circumstances.
Wishing you all a great week and see you next time.
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