Hi Tish, frizz-comment: I love your storytelling from Africa! compare: flowers in our kitchen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/frizztext/9306964082/
Even locals told us that anything could happen in Kenya. And so one Lake Naivasha morning, when I thought I was alone in the grounds of an old safari lodge, I was both surprised and unsuprised when a young man suddenly stepped out from the papyrus swamp clutching two bunches of carnations. Fifty bob, madame, he said after the customary greeting. He seemed nonplussed when I started to laugh.
“Do you always keep your carnations in the papyrus,” I asked.
“Yes,” he said.
“What, waiting for people like me?”
“Yes,” he said.
This exchange seemed to seal the deal. I didn’t even bother to haggle. And although I have no idea why I would have 50 bob on me in such a place, I bought a bunch. Given the general lack of wazungu humanity in that particular location, I also wondered how long he had been waiting for the…
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frizz-comment: hi Tish, I love your storytelling from Africa! compare: flowers in our kitchen:
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I love your garden flowers, Frizz, and many thanks for the reblog.
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danke für den Link zu dieser wunderful “blog”
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you, Rosa-Rosie-Roos, and Tish: you both know Africa – I’ve never been there, only was fascinated by reports from this great continent, the origin of mankind …
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