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210interesting stories of his adventures. We had roast warthog that night I think which had been shot earlier. It was just like pork, perhaps a bit drier. I think the farmer%u2019s wife had injected it with butter, even though butter was just about unobtainable where we were at Thornhill. The family had looked after us very well and shown us what rural life in Rhodesia had been like. I hope they all survived the mayhem that was to follow. Mugabe wanted to give more of the country to the Blacks but one of the reasons they appeared to have the worse areas was because they did not look after the land well. The West had given a lot of maize seed and fertiliser to the black farmers when the country got independence. The seed was treated with something so it could not be just eaten. However, the recipients apparently sold the fertiliser to the white farmers and made beer with the seeds. And then took a year off. How common that was I don%u2019t know but from what we saw I think it was quite likely. On Monday morning, we got up at 4am for the drive back to Harari and then flew back to Thornhill together. When we arrived there, we found that the students had fouled up the program that we had left them and so another couple of slots were lost. However, we were now on the last week of the course and the students all went and had their end of course checks and miraculously passed. My last 2 trips were scts, firstly formation, presumably with Steve and then a general handling trip for fun. I took an SACW with me on the first one and an LAC on the second. Where they came from, I have no idea. Perhaps they were clerks on the Squadron or something. Presumably they had befriended us at some point. We left Thornhill and were taken up to Harari where we were taken out to dinner by a couple of senior Zimbabwe Air Force officers. They gave us both Rhodesian Air Force ties, they had not got Zimbabwe ones yet, and thanked us for our efforts. They asked how much of the coun-