It’s easy for children to think that just because tropical kids don’t have designer t shirts and an iphone that somehow they can’t have happy and fulfilled lives! This ebullient talk has stunning photos and anecdotes about their contemporaries from Light me Pipe Gap and Bust me Gut Pass to Puh and Heaven’s Gate. It shows, too, just how resourceful and responsible children there have to be to contribute to the family budget, and they’re happy too, and loved!
My pal Lemmy (as in “lemme your arm”) whom I invited to drink his fill on my arm, and accompanied me in a small container for a monthHis uninvited pals were rather more messy!After a day looking after the cow in the fields, she comes skipping and singing down the hill behind me. I turn, quickly frame her, and snap! When I get back I notice three other people in the photo!
“You presented it all in such a delightfully humorous way, yet with just the right sensitivity as you introduced them to some of the very strange practices of different cultures.”
Richard Nicholl, Castle Court
Poise and style though poor. Holy Pushkar. Rajasthan.Debre Libanos, Ethiopia. Orphans, lucky if they have a change of clothes. Sheer Joy!Nope, I don’t have a Gore-Tex jacket, but a sheet of plastic keeps me dry, almost!Sind, Pakistan. Now submerged, selling disco chicks in the market.
“Children and staff alike enjoyed your show enormously. It was humourous, entertaining, engrossing, and the photos quite superb. It was a delight to sit back and listen to an expert communicator bringing his experiences of adventurous travels in such an engaging way.”
David Telfer, Broadwater Manor
Children’s hour! Soon bedtime, then it’s the grups time!Allum Channah, then the World’s tallest man. 2.34m or 7’8″. Sind Pakistan.Fresh steaming meat! Nepal. Dodgy skipping territory though!“Nope, I don’t have an ipad or a Nintendo, but I have loads of fun making darts like the Englishman showed me!” Ethiopia.“Nope! ..I don’t have a rod or a reel but I’m catching supper with a coke can and some line I found on the beach!” Martinique.“I’m having a whale of a time in the Florida Keys.”
