Bye Jo

Our friend Jo will be back in South Africa today and about to start her big African adventure. Jo travelled up to St Helena with us on the dear old RMS, was a co-survivor of the captain's table and was the originator of the "crab in a blowhole" syndrome. We miss her here (though infant bananas are now safer - sorry, bit of an "in" joke there). Have a great trip Jo, hope you meet that African chief (and that they have clearer chat-up lines than the old raised eyebrow used here!) but we are a bit worried that having been on an island with virtually no harmful animals (a slightly toxic spider and a scorpion) you managed to be terrorised by a small green grasshopper and a fast-growing vine: and now you head off to a continent where the wildlife is just a tad, well, wild (and most of them have big teeth too, even the plants). We look forward to your blog updates (at least they will mean we know you're still alive)

Jo (right) with her co-worker Carolyn at the Longwood Fair

Jo, 5 seconds later. Carolyn with the slightly puzzled expression all too common on people who spend time around Jo