Ribh's D'Coopage

[MaryJanet]

Face to the fire on a rainy evening

She's reflected in the stainless steel fireplace surround Nana had installed in the 50s.

 

[RoyalChick]

Happy Caturday. He just shredded a bookmark and is thinking about starting on the book!

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

 

[bruceha2000]

Awesome photo Bruce

Not mine of course! I'll keep posting pictures from my sister's trip to Africa as long as she is sending them

 

[RoyalChick]

Here’s my Africa Caturday contribution.

 

[MaryJanet]

Here’s my Africa Caturday contribution.
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Were you in Africa RC? That would've been a very special trip.

 

[RoyalChick]

Were you in Africa RC? That would've been a very special trip.

Over my life I have spent a lot of time in various parts of Africa. As a child my Dad worked in East Africa and my parents felt that trailing around after him was as good an education as any - so I have a lot of back-of-jeep hours to my name.
I remember Kilamanjaro covered in snow - which looking at current pictures just makes me very sad.
The lion photos posted here are from a more recent trip (about 10 years ago) - I think that was South Africa or at least Southern Africa.

 

[MaryJanet]

Over my life I have spent a lot of time in various parts of Africa. As a child my Dad worked in East Africa and my parents felt that trailing around after him was as good an education as any - so I have a lot of back-of-jeep hours to my name.
I remember Kilamanjaro covered in snow - which looking at current pictures just makes me very sad.
The lion photos posted here are from a more recent trip (about 10 years ago) - I think that was South Africa or at least Southern Africa.

What a childhood! What did your dad do that took him so far afield? How do your mum's cats fit into the African years?

 

[RoyalChick]

What a childhood! What did your dad do that took him so far afield? How do your mum's cats fit into the African years?

Cats came after the Africa years - Dad was still there a lot, but my mother and I mostly stayed home. I never thought about it before but a lot changed all - we moved house, I changed school, and I stopped being pulled out of school to go to Africa all about the same time. I wonder if I was having trouble at school or something. I don't remember!
My Dad was an academic - an economist - his specialty was developing economies in particular in East Africa. He was employed by the Kenyan, Ugandan and Tanzanian goverments to help them set up government institutions and trade treaties as they established themselves post independence from Britain.
He also did projects for the World Bank - I only remember one of them specifically because like all economists my Dad wasn't that comfortable with mathematics and he roped me in to calculate evaporation rates from paddy fields for some report about growing rice in East Africa!
After he died and I went through his papers it was quite lovely to see the letters of thanks from ministers of this and that from those countries as well as requests for advice over many years.

 

[MaryJanet]

Cats came after the Africa years - Dad was still there a lot, but my mother and I mostly stayed home. I never thought about it before but a lot changed all - we moved house, I changed school, and I stopped being pulled out of school to go to Africa all about the same time. I wonder if I was having trouble at school or something. I don't remember!
My Dad was an academic - an economist - his specialty was developing economies in particular in East Africa. He was employed by the Kenyan, Ugandan and Tanzanian goverments to help them set up government institutions and trade treaties as they established themselves post independence from Britain.
He also did projects for the World Bank - I only remember one of them specifically because like all economists my Dad wasn't that comfortable with mathematics and he roped me in to calculate evaporation rates from paddy fields for some report about growing rice in East Africa!
After he died and I went through his papers it was quite lovely to see the letters of thanks from ministers of this and that from those countries as well as requests for advice over many years.

One of my family is from Uganda! I wonder if he'd have survived his childhood without your dad's work.