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Home, sweet home.(Wild life)
Publication: Spectator Publication Date: 30-JUL-05 Author: Hartley, Aidan
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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
Kenya coast
We are gathering to celebrate my mother's 80th birthday at the home where we grew up on Kenya's coast. She is one of the serried ranks of great Mums, who more than generals or MPs deserve to be in Who's Who. She was born in Lahore, daughter of an Indian Army colonel; served in a women's unit in Burma while still a teenager; Aden, Baghdad and Kurdistan with my father; raised four children on remote farms in East Africa; built three homes of her own design; farmed cattle in Devon while we schooled; helped my Dad as a volunteer helping the poor in Uganda and northern Kenya--and much else besides.
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