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In reply to the discussion: What's with the friggin pith helmet? Going on a safari to the White Highlands of Kenya? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)50. My husband doesn't do cold, either. We do know a couple
old GA families who have big trees over their old houses and refuse air conditioning. When we looked for a winter place in FL, I wanted shade and windows open amap. Happily, the half under the big live oak includes both covered porches, one on the east, other on the west to move with or hide from the early and late sun, and the breeze is funneled across the end of one. Sitting out was lovely this afternoon while and after it rained.
That said, I can't take sustained heat. It'd kill me, no exaggeration, and I would have been one of those who did not survive to suck it up. And now with global warming, ...
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What's with the friggin pith helmet? Going on a safari to the White Highlands of Kenya? [View all]
yellowcanine
Jun 2020
OP
It really is, isn't it. "Memsahib, the porters are setting up your campsite as we speak".
RussellCattle
Jun 2020
#6
I remember it from The movie Out of Africa, that was how toneof the servants addressed
Dream Girl
Jun 2020
#16
When I wrote this I knew that. Couldn't think of an African equivalent. Said....
RussellCattle
Jun 2020
#21
No, but feeling that it's necessary to "correct" me is pendantic. Especially so...
RussellCattle
Jun 2020
#23
You're right of course. I shouldn't be so thin skinned, especially since I anticipated....
RussellCattle
Jun 2020
#38
she thinks she is going to the wild west, ravaging sun, wild animals and gunslingers.
Thomas Hurt
Jun 2020
#9
Well, her husband does have a fondness for women with pith on them. So I've heard.
dameatball
Jun 2020
#12
She was on safari at Nairobi National Park when that photo was taken. And she got
highplainsdem
Jun 2020
#26
Your post is confusing. Did she tweet today an image of her in the pith helmet...
SMC22307
Jun 2020
#41