She spent WW2 working in England for the YMCA, and returned to Kenya with her new husband in 1946, to her old farm. Her farm manager was Nicoll. Returned to England 1947. Returned to Kenya Dec 1948. She switched the farm's main industry from milk to beef. May 1949 back to England. To Kenya 1951. 1952 - Mau Mau.Got rid of all the servants and most of the farm Kikuyu. 1962 sold Nderit to her son Robin. Started to loathe Kenya 'the politics, the boredom, the inefficiency and the dust.' Visited Nderit in 1981 - ' The place is ruined. They have hacked the house about and smashed the lovely big rooms, making several cell-like bedrooms out of each one. Food unspeakable. Very bad drought here; most of the game and flamingo have gone. Went back to Muthaiga utterly dissolutioned'.

Midday Sun - 1933 - 'Genessie Long was slim, elegant and rich; she wore long pendant ear-rings, had a well developed sense of drama and was tougher than she looked. She had come to Kenya as a bride in 1923 on safari with her first husband - Blix was their white hunter - and fallen in love with Africa, the safari life and the prospect of adventure. Subsequently she also fell in love with Boy Long, and they married.

She bought the ranch Nderit on the shores of Lake Nakuru, where she designed a splendid house with enormous rooms built round a patio with a fountain playing in the middle. Even larger stables accommodated, she told me, about 70 horses. She was an accomplished horsewoman and a good shot. A semi-tame hippo used to share the cattle's drinking troughs.

Boy and Genessie lived in style and entertained generously ........... house-boys in dark red kanzus with beautiful gold-embroidered waistcoats and scarlet turbans. She had a penchant for travel in the world's remoter regions, inspired by Rosita Forbes ...…

There was an occasion when Genessie arrived for lunch with mutual friends in Nakuru clad in beautifully cut white jodhpurs and a white silk shirt, a neat little revolver with a mother-of-pearl handle tucked into her belt.' .........

Later she married Lord Claud Hamilton ........... they took over Nderit, and Boy Long also found another wife.

Pembroke - 'The first war casualty was a former Master - Richard Dyson, known to the boys as 'Dicky Ducky'. As soon as he had arrived at Pembroke House he had been taught to fly by Genessie Long (mother of Pembroke pupil Robin Long)

EA Stud Book 1954 - Thoroughbred Stallions - Lady Claud Hamilton, Nderit Estate, Elmenteita

First Wheel - 1929 - "the farm bordered on Lord Delamere's acres, and several times his general manager, Boy Long and his wife, Genesta, came riding past by horseback. They were a very handsome pair and were always on very fine horses and were very gaily dressed. Corduroy slacks, bright-coloured shirts, large cowboy hats and a Somali shawl draped over their shoulders. ……… Boy Long died fairly early on. A great loss to the country; he was a premium man.

Genesta went on from better to better, and as I write she is still going on, thank God. She is a wonderful woman. She encouraged me [Bunny Allen] so much and was so understanding. Genesta got a grip of things immediately. She knew me very little, yet she had quite an influence on my life's work, namely safari and hunting, just because she talked to me with enthusiasm always, and such interest. Women like Genesta are few and far between."

Rhodora - 1950 - Lady Claud Hamilton prinked onto the lawn - conversation about two Lord 'Claud's. ... while we were on leave tried to pinch our head houseboy!

A Stone's Throw, 1986  Life with Boy was electric. The best times were when we went to the sheep farm at Laikipia, which was run rather haphazardly. There was always trouble - sheep stolen or missing or sick or dead. Some years later Father gave me the money to buy Nderit, the neighbouring farm to Soysambu. Nderit means the land between the rivers. We bought the cattle that went with the farm - a fairly scrubby lot, bought some goodish bulls and improved the breed. We had about 70 horses, 15 for farm work and the rest to sell, for polo and racing. The house, entirely designed by me, had an L-shaped drawing-room, 15 ft by 40, a veranda 70 feet long, carpeted all the way, two very big bedrooms, one with a fireplace in it, a sleeping veranda, bathrooms and one smaller bedroom. The house was built round a patio. The big dining room had a specially made table to seat 25.