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209being in a Weston. The children came with us. It was considered too dangerous to leave children alone in a house anywhere. They went to all the parties, but as the evening wore on, they would find places to go to sleep on the floor. Perhaps under a large table or behind some chairs. Anywhere that they would not get kicked or tripped over by the adults. The farmer%u2019s wife acted as a district nurse for all the farm workers and their families. She had a store of various drugs and syringes ready to inject anti-venom for snake bites. It was an interesting life for her. She had her children at home until they were 5 and then they had to go to a boarding school, only coming home in the holidays as their school was a long way away. Ian had been some kind of reservist and during the war would go out on horseback patrolling the area. Writing this down it all appears to be a bit of a hopeless situation but actually out in the countryside, blacks and whites appeared to get on quite well. Ian%u2019s foreman was black and they obviously worked well together. Later we were to find that wives in the urban areas were much more racist. Their problem was that they finished school at eighteen or even earlier and had nothing to do. They got married and started a family, but the children were looked after by black nannies. These nannies lived in something like small sheds in the garden. Wives would complain that if they were out and a child was sick, the nanny would not phone them as they could not use a phone. It did not occur to them to train the nannies.On the Sunday we had a good look around the farm seeing where the tobacco would be dried and so forth. It was very interesting. This was all interspersed with swims in the pool. And then in the afternoon we went out shooting. I missed a couple of pheasants, but Steve got 2. Someone got a warthog and another one was wounded. We tried to track it but it got dark, They were going to track it with dogs the next morning. We met a tracker whilst in Zimbabwe and he told some very