I had just started running around the outside of the house when a large monkey came out of nowhere and grabbed an apple off the bird-table.
I thought he had run off but when I lapped again, he had made himself comfortable on one of the pillars and was watching me.
Each time I lapped the house, it seemed he was waiting for me to reappear, nibbling his apple, enjoying the entertainment! Even when he had finished eating, he stayed, and I got some shots of him.
He then slurped some water from the birdbath, and was off!
I don’t have a Go-Pro, so I strapped my phone to my head with a fitness band to get a real-time lap on film. The sun was behind him, so most of them didn’t work, but this def captured the moment! 😂
I attended a creative writing group this week at the Honeycomb Hub, new to Gaborone. Blissfully informal, we did short writing exercises lasting just 3 minutes. New friend Sam’s inventive, off-the-cuff idea for ‘your flat mate’s father turns up on your doorstep drunk trying to persuade you to do something without your flatmate knowing’ was…
We were relaxing by the pool at a hotel when we noticed a particularly noisy weaver bird dismantling a nest; ripping this strand, that strand with such fury, that the nest fell from the tree – plop! Into the pool. The bird’s frustration was palpable – it paced endlessly up and down alongside the deep…
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