The most amazing thing happened to me today..

[Beetroot]

30 years ago as a 12 year old child I lived in the MIDDLE of the Malaysian jungle with the local indigenous population - the Temiar. We got there by boat - a thin log boat with a guy guiding us up the river with a pole at one end and an oar at the other. We lived in bamboo houses on stilts, didn't go to school for two years, saw trancing medicine men and tigers.

Today 30 years later my mother has gone back to visit. She PHONED me form one of the villages on her MOBILE - they have signal there now and I spoke to one of the guys that I knew as a child.

HOW WEIRD IS THAT

Beety that is amazing

actually with my experience of Zim I don't think the mobile thing is that odd. Landlines in Zimbabwe are notoriously unreliable, and also virtually impossible to get in the remote areas - due to a lack of infrastructure - whereas a mobile phone mast doesn't need the same level of infrastructure - so most people own mobiles, but don't have landlines

That's fantastic Beety.
I have found the place where we lived on a tiny tropical island in PNG where we lived as a child on Google Earth. (Also did the no school thing)

I will take my children back when they are old enough to enjoy it.
It was a wonderful time.I often dream I am there again.

Wow Beety - I immediately thought of A Town Like Alice, though that was Burma, and 3 decades earlier...

But wow, wow, wow!

Anyone wanna see pics of Hillingdon Heath where I was brought up? Thought not some people have it and some just don't eh?

was out in the bush in south africa a few years back, a place reached by overnight train and then small airplane to remote seeming airport, and amused by the fact that i had perfect phone reception there and none at home in hampshire

sounds a wonderful childhood beety.

The guy I spoke to only knew 4 words in English 'What you eat today' which he said o me and laughed - I was so shocked any Malay for temier I might have remembered went straight out of the window