Happy April Fools’s Day
in the age of Trump and fake news, it’s getting harder to work out what is genuinely an April Fool’s Day story and what is just bizarre reality. The BBC has a compilation of recent stories that seem crazy but are true. I’m pretty sure that this story in this morning’s “Guardian” newspaper is their April Fool’s Day contribution.
But I was almost caught out by my six year old granddaughter Catrin who made a FaceTime call to me from her home in Nairobi. She explained that once again lions had escaped from the Nairobi National Park which is located in the city. This has happened several times before so it was a credible story.
Catrin then told me that she’d seen a lion walking down their road. Now the national park is in the centre of the city and she lives in the suburbs so that could be possible and sounded exciting. It was the huge grin on her face that gave it away. But, boy, I laughed at being had for a few moments. Made my day.