We stop started our way around the little game park, via every clump of grass to be seen. Reluctantly I set forth, stupidly wearing shorts, on Ewe, a horse with zero comprehension whatsoever of basic equine commands, like ‘Giddy Up, Ewe, Please, Please Giddy Up’ and ‘Do Not Whoa, Ewe, Especially Not Next to the Clump of Grass full of Ravenous Ticks’. I am O Positive.īack to the Game Park full of ticks. And my last little-known fact, ticks favour O Positive over all other blood groups. His last words were ‘Sure arrows hurt, but not as much as tick bite fever and my aching head’. But it was definitely the tick bite fever that did for him in the end. ![]() Sure, being shot point blank in his forehead didn’t help his health, neither did getting stabbed, nor poisoned with cyanide, nor getting lobbed into a freezing canal full of icebergs. ![]() Rasputin the Russian Monk died of tick bite fever. Tick bite fever gives you headaches that feel like the inside of my sock and underpants drawer looks. Ticks never ever bite other ticks, mostly for fear of contracting tick bite fever. Having suffered tick bite fever more than once, I am an expert on ticks. I hate ticks and almost ran away there and then. Before setting off on our noble steeds, mine was called Ewe, our Game Guide told us beware of ticks. I took my granddaughters horse riding in a small Game Park in Harare in early December. ![]() The Chinese called 2020 the Year of the Rat, they should have called it the Year of the Tick, because if ever there was a year that sucked, 2020 was it. Apologies for taking so long to get the last blog of 2020 out, but I’ve been sick.
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