Kusasi

Today was a day back in Cheltenham, though unlike most time spent there this year, it was just a flying visit to bring a carload of stuff back up North.

But I was delighted to find this sketch. This orangutan is Kusasi - a name I often go by myself when I need a presence online, as I?m sure many of you who have found this blog will already know. I had forgotten I had this - it's a simple pencil and paper drawing, and was drawn ten years ago in Borneo by a ranger from the hut in Camp Leakey - Kusasi's home. I was much taken by Kusasi the orangutan, and by the whole experience of visiting the island, and I was humbled that the ranger (Andreas) gave his picture to me as a memento.

I have a garage full of furniture still to sort, but this grubby sketch was the most valuable thing of all to me. I hope to look back at it just as fondly in another ten years.