Janet and Dick Southey went back to the earliest days on the Copperbelt in in Northern Rhodesia where Dick was a chemist on the mines. The couple moved to Southern Rhodesia where they farmed in Karoi and later growing coffee in Vumba (now Bvumba Mountains – which means mist). Dick was from white pioneering stock with may Southey’s dotted around the country in those days. Most were commonly related to the famed English poet and Poet Laureate from 1817, Robert Southey The Southey’s looked after Philip, David and Ellen’s son who was 2 in 1958 when the went on a long trip to Israel, Morocco and all over Europe – including a visit to Bad Homburg. This was the trip when Ellen met Edmund Ackermann for the last time.