Ok, Ok...

OK, Linda is my mum.

I had the feeling she got kind of sick being called 'mama' everywhere she went in Senegal, and I had to keep on reminding people that she may be a mama but she is also a Linda, whose youngest offspring now lives far away on a different continent.

Was this really the thing that stood out most from my entry, that I didn't call my mother 'mum'? What about the fact that I had to climb a tree to pick up mobile phone messages (or did I forget to put that in?).