Grumpy Sir

A very rare picture, Grumpy Sir holding his grandson - rare because this is a first and done not quite under duress, but because his grandmother who was looking after him had to say goodbye to a visitor.   I could hear Grumpy Sir (so called because he likes to be called sir - and the grumpy is a self-explanatory added extra), being given the child as I changed after a shower - which meant I could have rushed out to save the grandfather and child, or just let the situation unfold.  I choose the latter and it seems everyone survived. 

We had a chap come stay today who has a microlight kept at the farm which needed maintenance of some kind. Jeff is a big donor to a lion research project and has donated the microlight to them, why it's stored here I'm not sure.  Anyway, very nice chap and I cooked dinner for all of us, which went down well and got a slightly better response from grumpy sir than the dinner I cooked earlier in the week that was described with a 4 letter word beginning with S.  Personally, I liked it and didn't think it was quite that bad. 

Interestingly, Jeff was telling of a friend of his (who is also local legend) who survived 10 years in prison in Zim.  The story came about as we currently have 11 cattle missing - 2 days have been spent searching for them, so a natural suspicion would be for them to have been taken.  The penalty for steeling cattle is 9 years in prison, which is considered a death sentence.  Jeff's friend was convicted for a murder he didn't commit - he didn't commit it because the 'murdered' poacher is still alive and living in Zambia.  Anyway, for 10 years, he slept in a cell 30x3.3 meters housing 78 men, each with a 350mm wide slot to sleep in - that sounds bad, it gets worse.  There were 4 toilets - for 760 men, who were kept locked up most of the day and night, so each morning, yep, you had to queue.  Water was very scarce indeed and so to have survived is nothing short of a miracle.  Frankly, what a man.