FIGHTING TALK - Tsunami survivor
Hamish McKenzie - lucky, Alexandra
Monday, December 27, 2004
A close friend of mine was swept away from his breakfast table on a Thai beach by the most devastating natural disaster
in my living memory. In an email to his parents in Alexandra, at 8.37pm while we waited for any news, he wrote: "I am
very lucky to be alive". Lucas always was the master of understatement.