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Beverages ring, enjoy!!!

Received as part of the Beverages Ring... it will probably continue its travel... :)

Sent on as part of the Books with a Beverage in the title bookring.

Again a book that I couldn't resist to pick up.

Some time ago I had read the "awful book" as Alexandra Fuller's mother refer to the first memoir book " Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight" in which the author writes about more about herself as she remembers her childhood in a Rhodesia at war under the care of a bizarre mother.
This book is more about the life of her glamorous parents and the tragedies they encountered and still in their old age relocated in Zambia and managed to build from scratch a thriving banana and fish farm.
"Funny, tragic, terrifying, exotic and utterly unselfish-conscious, this is a story of survival and madness, love and war, passion and compassion"
I agree with that.
The book came as a "Beverage in the title Bookring". The joy of these surprise packages !

On its way to kirjakko who was tagged.
I hope you like it as much as I did.

The Coctail Hour has arrived. The poor book has taken a dip into some yellow liquid (a cocktail?) at some point, but if you guys have survived reading it, perhaps I will, too.

Pic: Oops, it went sideways.

Came here just to say: Thank God this happened to somebody else, as the way Alexandra describes it, it is hysterically funny, when actually it is horrid. I'm merely in chapter two, where Nicola Huntingford is born, but goodness me for her flying-lesson and Scottish ancestors who perhaps buried Tasmanian aboriginals in their pet cemetery...
According to Nicole, it was Major Allan Macdonald who started the breed "or whatever you say when you invent a dog" in the early 1800's. According to literature, cairn terriers have been around already in the 16th century, but became an officially recognized breed in the Kennel Club as late as 1910. Edit: Allan Macdonald was the first president of the Cairn Terrier Club (also established in 1910), but he didn't "start the breed" http://thecairnterrierclub.co.uk/history.html Very few people start a breed, like dept collector Dobermann did. But either Major Allan M. was old as Methusalem or it was actually his son, Captain Allan M, known as Muncle, who was the club's first president.
It is sad that Waternish Estate has gone to dogs after Donovan bought it, because the house looked very grand.
Can't remember who it was who said and in which book that all expat Brits living in Africa are mad as hatters, but he must have met Nicola Fuller of Central Africa.
I have thought of putting some of my family memories down for a book, but they look very pale in comparison - which is a relief!

This is a bit like watching The Book of Mormons, the musical - hilariously funny, but at the same time you feel a bit ashamed, as you are not supposed to laugh at these things (gay, black people, religions, insanity - all taboos you can think of). And the horrible thing is that had Nicola Fuller of Central Africa been born in the United States she could have been locked up in a White House, where she would Make America Great Again. So many similarities with the current Master of the House, except it was his niece, not daughter, who wrote The Awful Book.
I'm not sure I will be able to pass this book on. Lend, yes, but to give up completely? And I'm only in chapter four...

Finished. I wonder how anybody stays sane in Africa. Losing three children, several farms, being conned out of your year's income and living in a war-zone, not to mention the extremes in the climate and danger the wildlife causes, all the tropical diseases... I would not set my foot there willingly.
I will hold on to this book for now, lending it to people as said, but I'm sure I want to read the story again as there was so much to take in on one read. And I enjoyed Alaxandra's way of telling the stories, but hey, she had been trained for it early on!

I'm lending this to my dear old friend and collegue from the Academic Bookstore, who is corona-housebound due to her age and needs a survival kit of books.

I didn't like the book first as Mother was so cold towards Bobo, but I gradually began to admire the parents who were so relentless and courageous in spite of all the appalling disasters! And what she told about life in Rhodesia during Mugabe's power was even more horrid that I remember reading from newspapers at that time. Perhaps the country will get back to its feet one day. It is such a shame that settlers from Europe came and messed up everything all those years ago. I've read that more and more Chinese are moving to Africa. At least they are hard-working.
The book returns to Kirjakko when I've read all the books she brought over.

Nicola Fuller & Co returned home.

Oops, the picture went sideways.

Oh no. My favourite living Yorkshireman turns 60 this month. I was trying to think of a book to send, it won't get there in time anyhow with corona slowing down the Royal Mailmen... And then, quite by accident, I found this book from his wishlist!
So, Deltic - old man - for your Big Day I'm happy to send this book which I liked so much, and hope you will, too. Many happy returns!

Pic: Me in York on my Big Day in 2015. The same day when I met Deltic and MrsDeltic and got my ambassadorial title...

P.S. I'm surprised if this arrives at all... Finnish mail personnel did not fill the whole customs declaration form (left tariff number and country of origin open) and when asked if it will be delivered partly filled they said that with corona nothing is certain... They then tried to charge me over twice the price as they thought UK is no longer part of Europe...

Hello everybody. Despite the sabotage efforts of the Finnish Postal Service this book finally arrived yesterday!

When I first looked inside I was afraid that one of your patients had had a little accident on it. I was relieved to hear that the unidentified liquid stain had been with the book for some time........

This book has been on my wishlist for so long I had forgotten about it. I originally "enjoyed" Lets Not Go To The Dogs Tonight" some time ago, when our church had its annual collection of clothes and tools etc. for a Huddersfield based African charity. Mrs D and myself had volunteered to take take everything to their depot, and when we saw that they had a shop we just had to go in and make a bee-line for the books. The Alexandra Fuller book was part of our haul. I look forward to reading this one when I make a little hole in TBR Mountain.....

Thank you for sending it Kirjakko.

And finally, almost 2 years since it's arrival, and some nagging from it's previous reader, I finally got round to reading this. I have had the yellow stain analysed and it seems safe to read the book.
I too have read the "awful" book Nicola Fuller's mother talks about. Its a book that makes you think and as Kirjakko says, "Thank God this happened to someone else!"
Its very funny at times when it should be actually be deeply tragic.
Onomatopeoia seems to be the in-word around here at the moment and our local radio station has a daily competition based on this word. The jingle for it is driving me crackers. I even thought they'd invented the damn word. Then lo and behold there it is being referenced on page 207 of this book. "Mum brought a Chinyanja phrasebook and dictionary to practice on Adamson the cook.......She especially like the word for brain. "Bongo" she said triumphantly, "bongo, bongo. Isn't that onomatopoeic? That describes my brain perfectly." I now have the challenge of finding a suitable reader. If I still have it in June it will be going to Falkirk.

Going into the book carrying trolley in an endeavour to return to it's previous reader.

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Well, Kirjakko told me to read this and I´ll do so. She knows that I read Fuller´s previous book some years ago.
Deltic, is was nice l to meet Mrs Deltic and you. I met a lot of nice people in Falkirk and Edinburgh. But never again I am going to take 46 books into my luggage. I came back with less than twenty and still my luggage was heavy. Poor me! But the books I came home with are very nice.