Monthly Archives: February 2010

We've been very lucky to find a little blue house that just about fits our circus sideshow act: two bedrooms, a kitchen-diner, a little porch and a sandy patch for the inevitable kicking of footballs.  it's in the middle of some fields, so if the game gets serious, we can upgrade our pitch.  also very quiet as a result.   we appear to have inherited two dogs and a cat, but perhaps best of all, it's right next to the little kindergarten which Dumpie is now attending like he's been there half his life (it's day two). Today we also went to look at a school for Egg, and were delighted to find a lovely little place in Colomb run by a Hungarian lady for kids between 5 and 16 (about 20 in all), so we're going to try that one tomorrow.  we were amazed to find that they work to the Cambridge curriculum up to GCSE level, so we should be covered if we decide to stay out here till then (only joking - the way the government are now tightening up on visas, i wouldn't be surprised if fourteen days became the standard issue for tourists...with a mandatory three months between.  all for the love of bureaucracy and cash injected at the government instead of the local level). although the house is nicely shaded by coconut and peepul trees,  midday is a fairly hot business and getting hotter each day. it's amazing how that translates into a fairly pronounced laziness, so here's some pictures to pick up where i trail off.... Dumps takes in the Talpona river Eggs is hit up for baksheesh by some locals i was unable to resist a day's worth of bike indulgence. the disc brake and electric starter seemed like cheating....at first Dumps completes his first day at Vrindahvan nursery with Tania Family with new home and old mess Egg and Raj drive us…

we have, for a ridiculously small sum, availed ourselves of some local pay-as-you go mobiles. here come the lucky numbers: jay:   +91 88064675-three- 5 & tash:  +91 88064675-three-2 (numbers have  been somewhat mangled to put off the bots...and protect the innocent) incoming international sms messages still seem to be going astray, but most of the other stuff works....

and a fairly tricky affair it was too. some plane sickness on Eggie's par (now such an established part of the travel routine that we began stockpiling any sick bags we encountered), but most of it came out with a spritz of cologne and a bit of scrubbing.... [interval] we so made it, that it's taken me five days from starting this post to get to this point, so i'm going to fill the interval with pictures of the last few days... Little did we know what adventures lay ahead... Eggie and Uncle Michael, our friend from London/Edinburgh who walked past our entire clan at breakfast on the first morning. the boys in a typically sticky moment in the restaurant of our current hotel... few things can be as perplexing as a child's digger.... probably ice cream on the other side of the camera Egg discovered (yet another) innate talent.  this time it's cricket Dumps has decided the time is now right to give up the nappy.  this has been prompted by his cool assessment of the number we brought with us and the level of inconvenience that would result from continued incontinence.... ice cream and motorcycles.  few better reasons for moving somewhere.....