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Tessa was fortunate enough to run into the stunning Samantha Sadler today. And in the presence of such pulchritude, what could her finger do but go kaching kaching?

The UNEP had a meeting in Kenya this week and the President of Kenya fronted it. Beacuse he is so loved by his people all roads were blocked by police to prevent any macular degeneration which might arise from an unscheduled glimpse of the brilliant presidential visage.
This gave Tessa a unique opportunity to sit around for hours like the proverbial stale bottle of sarsparilla and observe the remnants of the Raj while she waited for the traffic to start again. She particularly liked the swagger stick which this officer was swinging around with gay abandon.
No, Tessa was not an attendant at the UNEP meeting. She was merely collateral to the whole process.

Is there a better start to any book than this?

"I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the north, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up; near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold."

Tessa has been a big fan of Karen Blixen ever since, at the age of 15, she read Isak Dinesen's "Seven Gothic Tales". So she jumped at the chance of visiting her farm at the foot of the Ngong Hills just outside Nairobi

Yes, Tessa had a good time in Kenya this week