Thursday, July 16, 2009

16th July, 2009 Feeling Harty






This morning we were off to see Donna, whose house must have one of the best views in Kenya with the lake at the front and the hills at the back. Her horse, Tandinera, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Petra Perkins, is coming back in to work after an 18 month gap. We were able to go through how we would approach a restarter and indeed, Donna got one her for the first time while we were there - it was hard to get her to get back off again.
Later we had a tri-lingual lunch with Donna and her extended family including her Italian in-laws and her baby girl, Daniella. Donna has a pet hartebeest and two warthogs that come and go as they please. The hartebeest, which spends much of its time admiring it's reflection in the windows, is an effective guard...er...antelope as it doesn't like strangers!