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This time last year
I was in Mumbai.My photos are hereThe one below is my favourite. I think she was two or three years old, and she was playing with the shrine like a doll's house. She was entirely engrossed in her play, and never noticed… -
There is such a thing as too much Victorian Gothic Architecture
Honestly. Walking round Mumbai is like walking round the V&A and the Natural History Museum, with the worst excesses of the Natural History Museum in Oxford, plus St Pancras Station thrown in for good measure. I'm … -
Sticky and grimy
I spent today wandering round Mumbai: or, rather a small part of it. It goes on rather. I started off going to Banganga Tank, which is a great big tank of water (which was an odd shade of green), set deep in some windi… -
Things that we will not mention to my Mother
That I felt the need to buy & use disinfectant on the lavatory in my bathroom in Pune, and that on the last night, not only did I not have towels, but there was a turd sitting in the bottom of the bowl. Definitely w… -
Back to Bom!
I'm back in Mumbai: I've got a lovely old hotel, from 1922. Proper colonial, from the twilight of the Raj. Even better, the internet here is free, and it's five minutes walk from the glorious old Victoria Terminus (but… -
Navel gazing
I had a very great navel gazing session last night: I was feeling somewhat disgusted with myself and my attitudes, and it all rather hit. I don't have any concrete solutions. However, I feel that I'm more aware... and … -
Not a good start to the day...
Any day which begins with a sulky stomach and a nosebleed does not begin well. And I couldn't find anyone at the breakfast room at the hotel, so retreated to have a flapjack in my room - much shame, as I was looking for… -
Sangam, nosebleeds, and taxis
Sangam, the World Guiding Centre for Australasia, is in a world of it's own. Just over the road from appalling slums: first time I've had children coming up and patting me on the arm, to say hello and beg. In Sangam, y… -
Went up mountain. Saw goat disembowelled.
I hear it's snowing in England... no precipitation of any sort here. It's still lovely and warm, but cool enough at night not to need the aircon (which is just as well, given the ballywhacking racket it makes!). Yesterd… -
Glove miscalculation
Apparently only 94 latex gloves, and they have been more or less safely delivered. They're still sitting in my hotel room, but only until Jo goes back to her hotel for the night. With great organisation, I have managed …
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Hubris
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We will remember them
For The Fallen With proud thanksgiving, a mother ...
