A Hippo On the Lawn

Diary of an Involuntary Expatriate

Wednesday, 20 August 2025

Ex mercenary teaches nine year old African girl to play the violin. Film at Eleven.

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Friday, 20 December 2024

FFS. An acronym allowing for the polite expression of intense frustration in mixed company.

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All he wants to do is to join the British Army.  FFS. I served. My Father served and his father before him in the Welsh Borderers of Rourke...
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Friday, 19 April 2024

Doctor Jurelma

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  Hi Tom, Look forward to seeing you too!  So sorry for the delay in replying. I was out of range for email/ internet Ordering items a...
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Thursday, 18 April 2024

Ultra Security

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Two programme managers ago I dodged the honour of filling a soon to be vacant slot citing verifiable financial incompetence on my part.  How...
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Tuesday, 31 October 2023

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Karma ( / ˈ k ɑːr m ə / , from Sanskrit: कर्म , IPA: [ˈkɐɾmɐ] ; Pali: kamma ) is a concept of action, work or deed, and its effect or cons...
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Wednesday, 20 April 2022

Empowering Youth

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I seem to be spending a lot of time at the airport, shuffling colleagues off to enjoy leave or pastures new, or welcoming those who have dec...
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Luanda, Angola
I first came to Africa in the early 90's, supposedly for one year. Six months in Mozambique followed by six months in Angola and then home again. Nearly 30 years later, I am still here. I have gone where the jobs were, in mine clearance, security, the oil industry, anything that would put bread on the table. I have a farm in southern Angola and am building a lovely restaurant on the banks of the Rio Kwanza where the river spills into the Atlantic ocean. I am 61 years old, have two sons aged 21 and 11, a daughter aged 4, a longtime girlfriend 21 years my junior, three dogs and a fine goose which we keep meaning to eat at Christmas but somehow never do.
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