Sally Geeve, who designed The Allotment Kitchen, is in the Experience section of The Guardian magazine for 20 April 2019 telling the story of how she had been crushed by an elephant in Thailand. ‘Her enormous foot was pushing down on to my body. It felt like a truck was driving over me.’ It must have been very scary and a lucky escape. One good thing that has come from Sally’s experience is that the mahouts now remain with the elephants at all times, never leaving the volunteers in sole charge of their designated elephant.