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YOU MUST PUT A SAFARI ON YOUR BUCKET LIST!

Dr Jan and husband, John, recently returned from an eight day safari with www.access2tanzania.com

Here’s what John said:

Safari  has been a great success: quite an adventure, with an excellent guide, good accommodation (the best was last – woke this morning in a luxurious tent with a verandah looking out on a pool of hippos 100 metres away), and wonderful abundance and variety of animals.

Tally includes 1000s of wildebeest (massed on their annual migration – really thrilling to see); 100s of elephants, gazelle and zebra; 100s of impala and baboons; maybe 50 giraffes; 200 hippos; a score of lions; and a precious few cheetahs and leopards. Also some hyenas and jackals, and small creatures like mongoose. Birds too, mainly like storks and hawks.

Very dry and dusty, but lovely landscapes of acacia (acacia wondering, that’s the flat-topped, horizontal-looking tree so iconic of Africa), kopjes (rocky outcrops like Hanging Rock), and spectacular moonscapes, sunrises and sunsets.

Have learned so much about animal behaviour, adaption, survival,and ecology, and now appreciate the mystique of Africa.

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Psychologist slams songs about alcohol abuse

Songs like Taio Cruz’s Hangover have been criticised for promoting alcohol abuse. Picture: Supplied

Chart topper Taio Cruz’s new song Hangover is the latest in a swag of tunes that feature drinking as a major part of their lyrics.

Other recent alcohol-fuelled hits include LMFAO’sChampagne Showers, Rihanna’s Cheers (Drink to That), Jason Derulo’s Don’t Wanna Go Home, Wiz Khalifa’s On My Level and Brian McFadden’s Just the Way You Are (Drunk at the Bar).

Hangover includes the lyrics ‘I’ve got a hangover, I’ve been drinking too much for sure, I’ve got an empty cup, pour me some more, so I can go until I blow up, and I can drink until I throw up.”

“Drinking songs make it easy for young people to justify heavy drinking and that should be a serious concern,” Dr Hall said.

“The songs not only normalise heavy drinking, they glamorise and give permission to get drunk.

“There needs to be a lot more care in the light of the information we have about young folks’ brain development, their physical health and the traumatic disasters that can occur as a result of heavy drinking – think drink driving, assault and even death.”

The criticism comes a week after St Kilda players were attacked for a drink and sex sequence to Pitbull’s Give Me Everything on the Grand Final edition of The Footy Show.

Give Me Everything lyrics include “but I might drink a little more than I should tonight.”

St Kilda Football Club was forced to apologise for the skit featuring Sam Fisher, David Armitage, Robert Eddy, Raph Clark and Clint Jones drinking and cavorting with a pole dancer.

McFadden caused a firestorm in February when critics accused his Just the Way You Are (Drunk at the Bar) of promoting date rape.

The chorus features lyrics saying the singer “can’t wait” to take an intoxicated girl home “so I can take advantage” and “do some damage,” adding: “I like you just the way you are, drunk in the back seat of my car.”

“No one should be proud of having a hangover and owning that they allowed themselves to get trashed and lose control,” Dr Hall said.