Dreams can turn out differently from what you had planned

Totally unexpected: Daphne’s friend Elaine Daly walking down the aisle at her African wedding.

THE first month of the new year always takes me down memory lane, as I start comparing notes on how I pictured my life to be like when I was still a child, and what it really is today.

Never in my six-year-old mind would I have thought I would be writing a column while waiting to see elephants amble by less than 50m away from our camp in Kruger Park, South Africa.