Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

The perils of being a Kenyan farmer’s wife

After close encounters with an angry buffalo, a lioness, a puff adder and a leopard, Claire decided to stay at home

Had it caught up with her, that Cape buffalo would have flattened my spouse of 21 years. Credit: mlharing 
issue 21 November 2020
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