September 4th, 2010
I told you yesterday that Carine had tracked down Commonwealth Games merchandise for me, didn’t I ?
I am really chuffed with my T shirt & mug & sipper (love that word – going to start using it, as part of my new pro-CWG-street-credibility).
So it would be really churlish of me to complain, right ?
Yes, it would.
But all the same, I have to voice one little regret…hey, where’s my vuvuzela ?
I so, so want an Indian vuvuzela, to go with our World Cup ones from South Africa, and then I can enter [...]
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September 3rd, 2010
As I type, the rain is bucketing down, thunder is rumbling away, and if I didn’t have to venture out in a short while, I would be happy and snug at home.
As it is, I have to head out into the monsoon traffic mayhem, and if it is anything like this morning – when it wasn’t even raining - I am in for a grim afternoon. Vasant Vihar – Ladoo Serai – Chanakyapuri is on the agenda for the next 3 hours. Should be fun.
Since I am stuck in traffic so much these days (along with all [...]
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August 23rd, 2010
I have so misunderstood these Games.
It’s not about the sport, silly, it’s about corruption – no, hang on, scratch that - it’s all about shopping.
And mega-events.
And a camping site in the middle of the city.
Read on, it is all wildly exciting stuff :
Whew, and there was silly old me planning on going to watch lawn bowls, or archery, and dragging my poor long-suffering sister Jane with me. Instead, now we can go to Gurgaon, and sit in an A/C tent with an LCD TV.
So, to all those nay-sayers who work [...]
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August 21st, 2010
There really is only one story in Delhi these days and it’s the incessant rain.
Oh, well actually, there is also the Commonwealth Games fiasco, so make that 2 stories.
No, hang on, there’s dengue fever, too, so make that 3 stories.
And yet in a way, they are all related.
Let me talk you through it.
The whole of the city is a mess, because everything is being dug up for the Games in October.
Because of all the construction (or so we are told), there has been lots of stagnant water left lying around, where mosquitoes have [...]
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