Can giraffes cough?

Can giraffes cough?

According to some, no. Fiction. But what giraffes can do is stoop
low, lift their stubby little paws and board a Boeing 747 home to
South Africa. Fact.

This is precisely what one little giraffe did when she headed south
for the wilting days of British summer, the whole of autumn 2010 and
a fair chunk of winter in order to dip one toe in the Indian Ocean,
another in the Atlantic and stick her head above the canopy and nibble
on jungle.

Follow her African Safari Picnic over Table Mountain and through the
undergrowth as she becomes the first giraffe to contribute to the

Friday, 6 August 2010

theatricalities





For those of you who thought a trip to South Africa meant leaving mop buckets scattered across my bedroom to collect acid raindrops falling through the tin roof onto my wrought iron sleeping bench in downtown Soweto and using decomposing earwigs to flavour my porridge, Ian McKellan is bringing Samuel Beckett to Cape Town. Yah.

Patrick Stewart couldn't be convinced because he has an irrational - yet extremely severe - phobia of vuvuzelas.
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