Lunch time walk around Black Park

 

As it was drawing up to mid-morning and the sky outside looked clear and blue with white puffy clouds I thought I should take the opportunity to go for a walk and get some fresh air at the same time having stuck inside with the bad weather. I thought I might also be able to get some dramatic photos of the aftermath from storm Bert, ripped up trees blocking a footpath or road way maybe even collapsed into the lake. 

Sadly by the time I got to the park it had all been cleared away and was now sitting as piles of logs by the side of those footpaths and road ways so the dramatic pictures didn’t come to pass. 

However I did start listening to a new book on Audible at the moment it’s free if you have a membership, Bush war operator by A.J. Balaam. At the moment there are a lot of books on Audible about the war in Rhodesia during the 70’s and the white minority trying to cling on to power and what it was like to fight in the special forces that were trying to counter the communist backed freedom fighters lead by Robert Mugabe and others.  

Where most western books are sanitised to make them appeal to a broader audience these books tend to tell you everything and at times it’s brutal. Both sides using shock tactics to try and get the better of their opponents. If you have an Audible account it’s worth a listen.