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"About Papa and Macaroni Castle - I dont really know very much about it. Papa didn't talk about it much and of course Nana wasn't there because she was neutral Hungarian. She,her mother and my sister stayed on a farm at Chisombesi, which is on dirt road to Mulanje. All I know is they were supposedly locked up but had they wanted to escape the doors weren't exactly secured. I remember my dad telling me that oneof the guards was our dentist, who was the gentlest, most timid mad on this earth - hardly guard material really. It was while he was in there that dad carved himself a sort of zippo lighter out of ivory...I think they were so bored that ther was a lot of Italian temperament flying about. During the time Nana and Granny were on their farm, Granny planted vegetables and raised chickens and even ducks, by incubating the eggs in her bra! She was quite an enterprising lady and one time when one of their dogs was mauled by a leopard and managed to escape, she stitched the dog up herself using needle and cotton. The dog survived and was quite aptly named Lucky. She also knew a lot about herbs and grew them in the garden. The local villagers got to know about her and used to come and see her when sick or hurt and she had quite a little clinic going treating them with herbs and plants from her garden. They were quite self-sufficient...Considering she was a city lady from Europe she adapted pretty well to living in darkest Africa as it was then."

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