Gambia - Life in the Old Girl Yet

An overnight upriver at the riverside camp of Tendaba is shaken by a shouting match involving a British African married couple and the wife's mother. It seems the mother, a lady well into her 60s, was into dressing up with mini-skirts that would not displease a teenage girl.

Still lusty for her years, she glad-eyed and bedded in secret a 23-year-old lad from the camp staff. The mystified accompanying couple wondered why this lad was seen knocking on their mother-in-law's door and then spending inordinate amounts of time canoodling.

After a day of hide and seek, the couple finally realised what was up. In the evening, the son-in-law, a decidedly rotund individual, refilled his glass of white wine, and, in front of the assembled staff and diners, went up to the lad and tossed wine all over him. At the same time, he challenged the lad to a fight and despite his bulk, clocked him one on the chin. Management then stepped in and separated the fight.

Late into the night, the couple quizzed the amorous elderly lady on what had happened. Meanwhile, the grandchildren, at first excited by the frenzy, promptly dissolved in tears on hearing how grandma had romped.

It was late, very late, before peace and quiet descended at this remote outpost.