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Angry Snake - Four years in remote Africa - Part One

Angry Snake. There are  countless stories, situations and adventures, here is one of the interesting ones: So it was that time of the year where the annual flooding of the Zambezi river had risen up and over the banks and into the massive flood plains, enough, to once again close our roads to the lodge and forcing us to start using boats for all access in and out. As we were about to drive our vehicles out, navigating the drowning driveway for the last time this particular season, we were informed that there was a "big snake" stuck in a fishing net across one of the flood channels crossing our driveway.  So armed with a knife and a swimming towel we set off to free the frustrated reptile.  To comprehend the situation a little better we waded into the waist to shoulder deep water, with the seemingly relentless current of endless flow, working against us. It turns out that the fishing net, a very long web of intricate meshed knots, needed to be pulle
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Humor

Humour (Latin: humor, "body fluid") source wikipedia (so it must be true) Just in writing the above definition I find instantly humorous ammunition, the two things that pop into my head immediately are: 1. Words divided: It is funny that the English language for the word is divided in spelling: British English spelling - humour American English - humor Latin – humor So here you go: American 1, British 0 My score goes to America for respecting the Latin version and being a little keyboard lazy myself it’s one character less to type saving time is always a winner in my view even though backspace and delete are quite busy keys on my keyboard, so for the rest of this post I will type my presses in words (starting now). Also to keep things fair and equal I will try and use both humour and humor. 2. Latin meaning of the word: Body fluid, body fluid? Come on that is funny just as it stands backspace, what happens when you laugh so hard that your stomac

DOD99vs1

I am by no means a perfect role model, I am by no means close to a perfect person but I do try every day to be better than yesterday or at least learn from yesterday. In writing this I invoke my freedom of speech. I will be scrutinised, I will be criticised, I will be ridiculed, most likely attacked and possibly silenced. My primary motivation is developing awareness and thought provocation. The death of democracy. The design of modern day politics is causing increased pressure on our existence globally, we are politically divided, almost half and half and more than ever we are distracted, more than ever we are losing our way. Our choice of political leadership does not make any significant difference anymore. Democracy is supposed to be a majority ruling, but the majority these days only means a handful of votes or underhanded power negotiations of which we did not vote for. The faceless removal of a figurehead voted for by the public, means your vote didn’t count for th