Flickr/ Natalie Tapson My wife Angela was born in Africa and from the age of four was raised in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, growing up on safari: she was already living half my dream. Angela’s soul mates were bush babies and mongooses, rich fare compared to the domestic cats and dogs that were my companions as a child in England, though the sudden emergence of a ferret or two from the deep pockets of the local gamekeeper’s greatcoat – all fiery-eyed, wraithlike suppleness – certainly added a bit of spice to life on our farm in Berkshire. When I graduated to hamsters and guinea pigs, then slow worms and grass snakes, I thought that was pretty exciting, but by the time I...
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