You may well not believe this, but??   I am going to have another READ, of  "SUCCESS THROUGH A POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE" --- HAD IT FOR MANY YEARS AND MOST CERTAINLY HELPED IN THE PAST!!  --- now with health failing and my head in a 'whirl' I need to  think more positively

She has written several other books about Kenya too.  I read them (and others) when we were out there in the 1960s as a way of getting to know and understand a bit about the country.

Well . . . .

We got there in June 1964, just after "Independence", and we left at the end of 1966.  The old colonial days had definitely ended, many Europeans had left for good and everyone was wondering how things would work out under the new African government.  By the time we left it seemed as though there would soon be a showdown between the Kikuyu people tribes in sympathy with them in the country north and east of Nairobi, and the Luo and their friends to the west on the shores of Lake Victoria.  A politician was assassinated near where we lived, so we were glad to leave and felt by then that it was no place to be with a young family.

However, we travelled about as much as we could and were able to see Uganda before it degenerated into Civil War.

John one of our chatters and his wife live in SA,and they are trying to get back to England,they have just put their house up for sale.Read his posts they are qute interesting and you will relate to a lot of what he says too.

No, I am definitely not an expert in African issues - we only went to Kenya for 2½ years - and that was 44 years ago !!!!!

However, since we were there to teach the Kenyans I thought I should know a bit about the place, and school had not taught me anything.  I read up what I could and found it all very instructive.  I suppose the exploration of the country and the building of the railway were what I found most interesting - modern African politics I find a mess and a muddle.

Today, has been a good and restfull day. Apart from a little shopping, I have continued the reading of "The Fall of Berlin" - one of the most interesting war books, I have read. = Fact and Explecit:

Thats probably why you have still got your own teeth Teri.
Funnily enough we didnt get sweets either except when the yanks brought them along with the nylons.
My mother said they were the best years of her life !!!