Nomads - After the letter came with the job offer in the Zambian copper belt, the first thing we had to do was decide which of our treasures we would take. Should we take our cats, for instance? My friend insisted we should take NOTHING!! With much trepidation, the whole household went into store; beds, bookcases and cats. We flew in one of the first VC10 flights landed at Entebbe at mid-day in sweltering heat, before going on to Ndola and being picked up by a rather bored personnel chap. Maybe we asked too many stupid questions, like 'Do you see many lions?' After an hour or so, we arrived in Mufulira and he dropped us at our temporary home, pointed and told us the shops were just over there. We met several other new arrivals and managed to sort things out after a fashion and arrange to buy a car - so that I could go to work and leave my wife and the two young children to cope with this new environment. That was our first arrival in a small community and the first episode that would lead to the book, Welcome to Oakhaven.
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