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

Laikipia

As the train pulled into Victoria my wife Claire, back home on the farm in Kenya, revealed that a buffalo was charging her. ‘Oh dear!’ she exclaimed as the phone line went dead. She called back minutes later, out of breath, to explain she had been walking our three dogs when the beast came thundering across the savannah and chased her half a mile.

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