September 1st, 2010
I left you yesterday to head out into Delhi’s evening traffic, ready to “horen plese” as I drove to book club. We had a lovely evening courtesy of Pamela, but tinged with sadness at yet another departure, since it was Kerry’s last book club.
I won’t get all maudlin on you, but all these departures are getting to me. There are too many in too short a period of time, coupled with the fact that we have been here nearly 5 years now, so my own ex-pat internal alarm clock is telling me it surely must be time for [...]
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August 27th, 2010
Today has been a long day, and the evening is but young.
After a lazy couple of weeks, I was up with the larks this morning, and took Yoda for a yomp at the club.
Muddy doesn’t begin to describe the state of the trails, but we had great fun, and Yoda’s 2 canine NBFs joined us.
I know, I know, I am slowly turning into a caricature of the quintessentially dotty English woman, striding out with a pack of motley dogs, but what to do ?
The jungle/forest at the club was ridiculously green and [...]
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May 25th, 2010
Sorry. But I can’t just avoid it.
It is hot with a capital H.
We have had several wretchedly long power cuts this afternoon, the inverters are malfunctioning and if I were to meet our esteemed Chief Minister (she who blithely promised us no power-cuts this summer), I am not sure the British stiff upper lip would prevail.
In fact I know it wouldn’t.
Now I assure you I didn’t deliberately cut the article in two.
I cut it because there was a picture of fat politicians mopping their sweaty brows, and I simply couldn’t inflict [...]
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May 19th, 2010
I can’t avoid talking about the weather. I’m English, so it’s part of my DNA, you see.
Just one difference. Over there, in Blighty, we moan gently about the cold and the incessant rain, and pray for a bit of sun.
Here in Delhi, we pray for rain. If only we could have a nice big storm to break the heat, and then some rain, but no such luck. Every day seems hotter than the previous one, and yesterday we even hit a record for minimum temperatures…
My weather widget shows it’s “only” 43 C today, [...]
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