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Philippa Langdon
An extraordinary life
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Coup D’etat
Slavery
The Return of the Emperor
Life at Mulu
Ethiopia Early Days
The Upturned basin
Festivals
Our Horses
The Blue Nile
Manegesha and Wuchecha Mountains
The Stone Seat
Gabriel, and the Hill it Stood on
Awash Game Park
The Teleferique
The Dams on the River at Mulu
When the Emperor came to Breakfast
The Podocarpus Tree and the Secret Spring
Ambo
Children’s Stories
The Strange Bleep
A Beautiful Water Nymph
Awash and the adventures of Happy, The Hippopotamus
Ruddy the Red Sea Shark
Grumpy the Mule, Magical leader of the Muger
The Secret of the Grotto
Ambo and The Sulphurous Reptile that lived in the hot springs
Family & Friends
Grandpa Lush
People
Harar
Elizabeth Ada Sandford MBE (Aunt Betty)
Catherine Hamlin
The Witch Doctor
Dadi The Bone Setter
Tafesa the Driver
Willie Morris, Ambassador to Ethiopia 1972 – 1975
Trips
Riding to Salt Cave
Lalibela Trip
Sof Oma Cave
The Fiche Trip
Trip to Langano
Trip to the Simien
The Crystal Cave and the Cliff Springer
Riding to Salt Cave
Sof Oma Cave
The Secret of the Grotto
Walking the Ridgeway with Audery
Rhine Trip with Audrey
Thursdays Child
Part 1 Early Years 1933 – 1937
Part 2. Ewhurst 1938 – 1937
Part 3. Ethiopia 1942 – 1947
Part 4. School Years – 1949 – 1952
Part 5. Mulu 1952 – 1956
Part 6. Kenya and Married Life 1954 – 1957
Part 7. Mulu 1957 – 1975
Part 8. England 1957 – 1975
Other stories
Mulu to kilometre 35
The first six months at Castle Head
My memories of Wilfred Thesiger
When we lived at Mulu in Ethiopia
The overturned bus
Stopped at gunpoint on Entoto Mountain
Starting life in England
Picnic Places
Bertram Langdon visiting Ethiopia
Summer Holidays June to September
Adera and the coffee plantations
Mules and Genets
Claire Sandford’s time in Ethiopia
History of Armenia
Claire Sandford’s time in Ethiopia
Educating my children beyond being bushmen
Difficult staff and how we coped with them
Educating my children beyond being bushmen
Farm accounts and paying the farm staff at Mulu in Ethiopia
Forestry at Mulu
Farming again – Musbury
HARVESTING and THRASHING MACHINES.
Holidays in Kenya
How the English School started
Memories of Audrey
How the churches are serving the people in the Diocese.
The between a Gelada and an Olive Baboon difference
The importance of plant seed at Mulu.
PNEU and teaching your children.
Unsuitable Boyfriends
The night a hyena took a bite out of a donkey
Practical Jokes at Mulu
Plays, Dances and Parties
Stories for my great-grandchildren
Holiday at Kinswear in Cornwall
Photos
Life at Court Farm
More Stories
Rafting on flooded rivers
The Spray Race
The Muger swimming Pool
Ethiopian Christmas and New year
Rafting on flooded rivers.
A Different Age
Strawberries at Mulu
Life in the UK and Hemyock
Animals
The types of Local People
Driving in our Peugeot
Visiting Awash with Marion
Eshetti and Hapte Michael the cook
Spontaneous Dancing
The sitting room at Mulu
My mother’s love of Flowers
The man bitten by a rabid dog.
Gully, Beshada
Meeting my mother in law
Janmeda experience.
The Edge
Too Many Children
Wofsho
59 Days Around the World
Glebelands to Boston Visiting the Amish Village
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