Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders

After my last post, I though "Woo hoo! Two posts in one month, I'm improving!". Unfortunately I've now slipped back into my old habit of writing a blog post when someone (my mum) reminds me that I have not done so. Apologies, dear readers, it's been a month.

I often find myself, whilst on the phone with my beloved friends or family, racking my brains and saying "No I don't think I've done much more else really" and then they say "Not much has happened here". This is actually a completely absurd falsehood on my part, because I mostly can't remember what I have been doing and it's nothing to do with how much stuff I do. I pause for a minute here, because I know this statement will feed back to an ongoing banter between me and my Significant Other (SO). I have forgotten one or two minor things recently, or have done them absent mindedly and therefore didn't even register them, and he's taken to saying "Well, you do forget things now..." as if I have reached some irreversible new level of senility.

However, I don't get much time to reflect on how cool my life is, how action packed, how easy, how 'different'.. or even how privileged I am. Madagascar helped with that. I'm currently on Round Island, a place not even Mauritians are allowed to visit, and that helps too.

So here is a list of cool stuff I have done since my last post, 26 days ago:

Visited Andasibe National Park in Madagascar

Seen a boa constrictor

Seen an Indri Indri (type of lemur)

Had my wife, Helen, come to stay with me in Mauritius

Hung out on the beautiful beach and by the pool at my SO’s house in the baking sun

Walked in Black River Gorges National Park where we saw the endemic Echo Parakeet

Watched the sunset at La Morne

Had sundowners with my MWF buddies

Fed the orphaned baby Mauritian fruit bats

Eaten a lot of chinese food, boulettes and roti

Visited Port Louis

Went to the best house party I’ve been to in absolutely ages, with the MWF staff in Flic en Flac

Finished and submitted my final Post Grad Diploma assignments

Started working part time at Casela Nature Park

Fed pygmy hippos, baby goats, parrots and lemurs

Did the zip lining, 45m canyon swing, lion interaction (which I’m not sure I agree with), safari, quad biking and segway for free

Did some conservation work (in case you think it’s all just playing with goats)

Had lots of french lessons

Became a werewolf in Skyrim

Celebrated Divali by driving around to see all the lights on peoples houses, then eating Dholl Puri.

Visited Round Island in Mauritius

Patted some tortoises

Helped with sea bird surveys

Carried out surveys of the Round Island boa (snake)

Errr. I guess that’s a lot of stuff?