good stuff, apple is the way to go!

have fixed the link (which I broke, in fact, when making it a link)

if anyone has tried to see Dod’s chicken joke they will find that the link does not work, bringing you back to the blog every time!

i hope no one has spotted your palm and tried to make of with it yet Jul – keep it strapped to the waist at all time i say, or hide on one fo your pairs of undies (how are they working out by the way?)

g has decided to purchase an apple laptop so we shall be blogging from the comfort of our own home soon!

Rio calls

T x

Hail all,

Bombay good then? Good stuff as you will be visiting it about 50 times!

I had a jolly time in Durham with Granny, meeting the entirety of the tennis team and brandishinhg Rio wherever we went – he was fairly well behaved and only bellowed once (with poor Graham who is the gentlest soulm around). what could have been a hellish 8 hour journey back on the train was in fact fine as Rio sleped most of the way – I was looking foradr to catching up with some reading (44 somethin street whicvh Jul gave me for my birthday and is very good) but no, I was not to have thet pleasure as some randome bloke started chatting – seemed to want to tell me all about his life – I tried to look facinated – possible too much so as everytime i tried to slither out of the conversation he would pop up with a new topic! rio has decided it would be fun to wake about  imes a night, taking his food in snack form rather than a harty meal!! Mum a bit haggered, Dad for the most part obliviouse!
Hope Gokarn no too festering, which it will be.

T x

Check this out:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TdMMGVRKqY

hello!

sorry, if you have texted me at some point but for some reason my virgin sim card isn’t working or getting any signel although flo’s contract is working fine.

 just spent the last few days in palolem. very nice. much better then benoulem. planning to come back here with lucy, a more gentle intro to india methinks. going to the contraversial gokarn tomorrow to check it out. then onwards to kerela were there is exotic dancing to be had. time seems to be nipping past rather quickly as the days are filled to the brim with eating and relaxing by the sea. flo and i went for a stroll along the left hand side of the beach yesterday and finding ourselves at the end decided to clamber over the boulders that abutted the sea and continue our route to the other bay. much fun and reminiscent of our respective childhood scamperings.

in one of the rockpools inbetween the rocks i spotted what looked like a perticulaly wierd bit of seaweed. on closer examination it was a sea slug! i plucked it from the pool dispit its efforts to twitch away. realy odd creature. like a sock filled with liquid, it wibbled in my hands like a water baloon, every now and then ejecting water in confusion. rather neat.

have yet to be seriously ill yet. this may have something to do with the insane amount of health giving pilules and whatnot we are ingesting everyday. food so far is very hit and miss. the best was in mumbai. need to be a bit more careful with the food here as the electricity keeps on cutting out all over palolem. some of the bars bbq fresh caught fish, and last night i had calamari which was very tasty.

christine seemed to remember you mama, though didn’t mention much fish gutting. 🙂

 people in goa seem remarkably friendly, hopefully this is true for the rest of india.

will blog from gokarn next.

julio

 

Dear Julio and Flo,

I was beginning to think that you had gone to Kashmir too! It was nice to receive some news. How was the train journey?
Give my regards to everyone at Antoinette’s (I am the one who spend one afternoon gutting small fishes with them)
Have you seen any kingfishers yet? They sit on the line by the side of the road on the way to the beach.
Daddy made a strong stew yesterday and instead of putting in the recommended five cloves, he threw in vaguely a dozen and acted in the same willy-nilly manner with the cinnamon, allspices, cumin etc…with the result that he nearly blew our heads off. We are not going to have any colds this year or the next, I reckon, thanks to this medicinal concoction!

Enjoy your walks and bike rides around.

Love Mama.