Blog

Two weeks can feel like a decent stretch and can also go by very quickly — usually depending on whether you’re working or on holiday.  For us, it’s been a bit of both (although I suspect most of you would conclude that holiday is the predominant flavour in this particular recipe).

The last week saw, in no particular order:  both boys starting school, Tash getting a mole carved out of her leg, the Hindu festival of light/noise/colour called Holi, a bicycle purchase (with two punctures and counting), a brief stint mixing on a borrowed soundsystem, and a haircut.  The busy pace  looks set to continue: Eggs is off today on a school trip inland, where they have gone to observe how things were in Goa’s ‘olden days’, then there is the possibility of a quick sprint up north to our old stomping ground with friends Lee and Julia, and, well, actually that’s pretty much it for scheduled activities until my parents arrive in a month.  Perhaps my definition of busy is undergoing a slow transformation…

As I write this, a roving band of painted celebrants are cavorting around the courtyard of the house opposite, banging drums and sticks, in the hope, i think, of wheedling some money out of the inhabitants.

Best look busy and get some pictures in….

Egg on his first day of school

Egg after his third day of school

The aforementioned haircut (photo courtesy Dumps)

three boys in a tree

Chaudi market

Egg encounters Hanuman in the streets of Chaudi

Contemplative cat points fore, listens aft

Lee and Sascha at the Riverside Rave

Egg nears 170 handwriting ‘ticks’

Egg the Explorer departs for the Interior

Town ends, debris begins. Cue birds.

Man living with sugar cane

£80 worth of Indian bicycle (except it’s made in thailand)

heavy as a tank, gears don’t work, extremely puncture prone. note child pad at front.