Polecats in my garden

[gadgetman]

Possums, parrots and kookaburras.

[MrMark]

Wilmslow!!!

[ Canned Laughter... ]

[EternalOptimist]

Remember staying in the Wankie National Park in Rhodesia once with lions at the bottom of the garden and we once had a looney wild one roaming the streets when living in Illiondale (RSA.) While living there a group of us used to go out after school catching Rinkhals to sell to the local snake farm for their venom. One ever lasting image is of walking home and all the Meercats watching you as you went past. In the dusk it can be a bit off-putting.

Fantastic. please tell us more

[Mich the Tester]

I got bitten by one of those when we lived in Nigeria (hundreds at the bottom of the garden along with crocodiles and other exotica.) It gave me Green Money Disease according to my parents but I'm not too sure about that as its also known as Marburg disease and is similar to Ebola (also got Malaria while out there.)

You could almost be me. I got malaria in Nigeria when I was 2 and survived thanks to there being a well trained military doctor in town. No marburg though. Mother was bitten by a white scorpion and spent two weeks in bed in agony. Father crashed his motorbike into a donkey and smashed up his knee. The donkey walked away.

One day the elephants escaped from the local chief's garden and rampaged through the market causing panic and a few deaths (they didn't really bother to count in those days).

Good fun all round.

[Boudica]

Wilmslow have you been putting them in your pocket again?

[darmstadt]

You could almost be me. I got malaria in Nigeria when I was 2 and survived thanks to there being a well trained military doctor in town. No marburg though. Mother was bitten by a white scorpion and spent two weeks in bed in agony. Father crashed his motorbike into a donkey and smashed up his knee. The donkey walked away.

One day the elephants escaped from the local chief's garden and rampaged through the market causing panic and a few deaths (they didn't really bother to count in those days).

Good fun all round.

You sure you're not me? I was about that age too. We were there when there was a military coup and had to have armed guards in the house. The only place we could sleep was in the hallway as there were no windows through which the naughty boys could shoot the white people. I did learn to swim there by walking out into the ocean and getting carried away though

[Mich the Tester]

You sure you're not me? I was about that age too. We were there when there was a military coup and had to have armed guards in the house. The only place we could sleep was in the hallway as there were no windows through which the naughty boys could shoot the white people. I did learn to swim there by walking out into the ocean and getting carried away though

No, you were obviously down south if you noticed the military coups. Up north is was just arabs and islamists attacking the white folk with machetes; happily our neighbour was an army colonel from the south who was armed up to the teeth. Eventually we all ended up piling belongings, ourselves and his family into his land rover and trailer and driving off to the relative peace of Zaria at high speed.