Elsa and Tess watching elephants at the waterhole - Sarara Camp, Samburu
Whooping and giggling, two-year-old Elsa has mastered a very convincing hyena call – the result of several months’ practice.
For the first part of this year, while most families were locked down in dreary Britain, pacing around soggy parks and struggling to home school, the bubbly toddler from Cheltenham was happily studying in a Kenyan classroom without any walls.
The logistics of going on a family holiday are challenging at the best of times – even more so during a pandemic, and especially in the entirely red-listed east Africa. But Mike and Tess Kelly, who travelled with their daughter across Kenya and Uganda between January and May, insist it was the best move they could have made.
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Queenstown has been badly hit by the lack of tourists over the last year. “The further you are from Auckland, the tougher it gets. You have to get on an airplane, and it’s pretty expensive.” Regions reliant on tourists, such as Queenstown and the West Coast, had asked the Government for more assistance and been turned down. A couple of weeks ago, after it became clear there was no support package for tourism generally, Boult said he had asked the Government for a date when trans-Tasman travel would begin, but had not been given one. “Businesses are looking down a pretty dark hole. If we have a date, many of them will find a way to survive.”
Lanesboro saddened by death of fun and caring Mary Conmy
Late Mary Conmy (née Kelly), Rathcline, Lanesboro, Longford
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The entire area was shocked and saddened when the news broke of the death on Friday, January 29, at her residence of Mary Conmy, Rathcline Road, Lanesboro, Co Longford.
Mary was predeceased by her father and mother Eddie and Tess Kelly and her sister Imelda.
She was a remarkable lady with an easy-going, laid back nature which was the trademark of her personality.
She had that unique personality that warmed the heart of everyone that met her.
Mary and her husband Frank had a great love of travel and they worked in many countries before settling back in Lanesboro where they reared their family.