Botswana Features: One Foot In Each Camp
"We don't set out deliberately to live in two places at once. It's just that when it looks like happening, we don't make a serious effort to stop it. We can't bring ourselves to abandon one place in favour of the other. An East African childhood gives you big horizons." Mike Kingdom-Hockings writes about his life in Botswana while his wife is based in France.
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Botswana Features: MKH Dog Pack Status Report
"I can't remember how many dogs there were when I sent my first article to BritishExpat. Since then I have farmed one out to a friend who needed something more intimidating than their old Lassie-type sheltie. Their maid successfully refused entry to a guy who said that 'Madam' had asked him to call about chopping branches off a tree. When the security guard from up the road arrived to find out what the argument was about, he was beaten up by the 'treecutter'." Mike Kingdom-Hockings writes about his life with a pack of dogs in deepest Botswana!
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Going Out In Style
"'I wanted my son to have an evening that he'll never forget - you only have one matric farewell and you can get married several times.' This sad comment on modern marriage is one of the reasons that some wealthy South African families spend the same kind of money on the end of a child's school career as they do on weddings." Mike Kingdom-Hockings looks at a South African cultural phenomenon: the matric ball.
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Photo of the Week: 18 March 2005
A max/min thermometer lies half-hidden by snow on a garden chair in France's Limousin region.
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France Features: Christmas in France
"One thing I notice is that the people round here decorate the outsides of their houses... Several shops and small businesses, as well as a few private houses, sport half-sized Santa Claus figures shinning up ropes fixed to the gutters. Next year I'll get one myself, but I also need a stuffed wolf to put at the bottom of the rope to make it more exciting." Mike Kingdom-Hockings tells of his Joyeux Noel in France.
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Photo of the Week: 19 August 2005
A view from the top of van Rhyn's Pass in South Africa
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Photo of the Week: 16 September 2005
A South African farrier shoes a horse.
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Christmas: France
"One thing I notice is that the people round here decorate the outsides of their houses... Several shops and small businesses, as well as a few private houses, sport half-sized Santa Claus figures shinning up ropes fixed to the gutters. Next year I'll get one myself, but I also need a stuffed wolf to put at the bottom of the rope to make it more exciting." Mike Kingdom-Hockings tells of his Joyeux Noël in France.
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Photo of the Week: 30 September 2005
A racing-car throws up a cloud of dust on the Toyota 1,000km Desert Race in the Kalahari
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