Next to Nairobi National Park on the road to Mombasa is a drive-in cinema. It has a large concrete screen in front of which were rows of cars on slight […]

Toni and Trevor were older by six and five years respectively. They had their own circle of friends and didn’t usually invite me to accompany them.   When they and […]

Like many kids, I received my first bicycle for my birthday. My beautiful bicycle was a little on the large size and it took me a while to master it […]

Trevor was still at boarding school in England, Toni at Kenya High School for Girls and in my case, it was Lavington Green Primary School. Our assembly was held in […]

Surrounded by bush, the Bunkhouse was a club outside of Nairobi and next to the Nairobi National Park (for the record, there are no fences around the park to keep […]

I have a few childhood memories of travelling through the bush, either while on safari or just visiting a game reserve. In one wildlife park, we stopped to watch a […]

People take their eyesight for granted; in my mother’s case, she had childhood surgery to correct being boss-eyed. The long and the short of it, she was long-sighted in one […]

Before we moved away from Nairobi there is the odd tale or two of which I would characterise as miscellaneous stories. Bread, jam and salt  At the bank, a man […]

Mombasa is some 300 miles from Nairobi, included in the journey is the 6,000-foot drop to sea level. As you go down to the coast, the temperature goes up. We […]

My school friends and I used to go swimming at English Point. This was a swimming club consisting of changing rooms and a pontoon moored about a hundred yards from […]