Celebrity Sighting

I just had breakfast with Barnaby Phillips! For those of you who have never been in a country in Africa with only the radio for outside communications glued to the BBC 24 hours a day – he was the BBC correspondent for Southern Africa for several years but is now working for Al Jazeera. Unfortunately, I was with two senior male colleagues who turned into strutting peacocks in the situation and dominated the conversation droning on about their own experiences and asking Barnaby if he knew people they knew, attempting to prove their own importance. Hopefully we will share a breakfast table again tomorrow – and at least one of the peacocks will be absent.