Enoch, the black lad who worked the garden and cleaned the birds out, was a Zimbabwean who had come south in search of a better life. As was Lisa the maid.  Both had horror stories to tell about conditions in their home country and the cholera outbreak was no surprise to them. According to Enoch the weekly wage at home was about£6 a week. £6.60 a day would be about par for what he was doing now. He was supporting a mother whom he had left behind in Zimbabwe as well as trying to get on in life in his adopted country. I was beginning to get the picture. It was black and white.