Hail. Oh well, at least we can now ocnfirm that Slightly is the odd on out – or perhaps he perchased a pair of these bags and actually likes them!

Jul, have you tried Hampi? Nice if you fancy free romeing round some temples – the food is also good as far as i can remember. Have you been to fruit stalls/markets yet to get fruit? well worth it.

liv – these pics should be in colour you fool – they look washed out and quite francly add to the wishy washy colour of the site – why not something bright and lively to catch the attention rather than dead fish colour?

 

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

Which Uncle would you leave your pibble with!!! One efficient and the other slightly the worse for wear after a large night!!

Hannah practicing before hitting the big waves!

Jul prefers the smaller waves.

Happy birthday to the great grannies!

Rio chewing for the first time

Rio smiling

Chillum is a foul clay pipe like thing which is used for smoking anything you can think of, but usualy ilegal substances.

I repeatedly tolf Dod and Mama that gokarn is a helhole full of simpering.aging hippies who have ‘found themselves’ (i.e dossing) and natives trying to ingratiate themselves and copy the hippies-all of then chanting ‘namaste’ form sun up to sun down.

The town was a pit of decrepitude and filth (though most town in india are dirty, it seemdd like nice dirt in ohter placed). the beach leading out of the town is also dirty and the sea not much to write home about-all in all a place to be avoided at all cost.

Palolem on the other hand is a haven of peace and tranquility with a crescent of golden sand and crystal blue sea-bliss.

Hope you enjot hampi-we did. though a little hot we enjoyed walking round the many miles of ruins and eating mangoes. Riner (a germand we were travelling with) swam in the river, but i wouldn’t recomment it!

Are the corracles still 10 rupees each? or did the bus drop you at the correct drop of pont!

Try out the mango cafe, under a huge mango tree by the river.

Aftre much debating the wedding has been planned for the 06/03/06 (sorry pinky-i know you have got the 18th april off-maybe keep that as a shopping day!) granny is possibly coming down to richards in the car and then getting driven over by richard (he has said he will find something to do as he doesn’t want to intrude but i’ve told granny he is welcome if he wants to come) and then back up, so she will come donw for the day, having visited rosemary on the way down. as to the others, bills is flying back from south america just for the pleasure of 10 mins in a reg. office!!!! and the rest of the gibbs clan will be charging down en mass (mostly staying at hotels due to the elderly contingency) i of course told granny she would be mroe that welcome to stay either with us or at the homestead but she feel she should come for the day.

I am going to have a dress made (hopefully by gill) to go over the expanding tum (non of mine fit) we will look in c&a fabric at the weekend.

Are you getting back on the friday night at 12am? if so then we can pick you up no probs.

Well, enjoy hampi-see you soon

Thanks!

Ready about beginning of august-just enought time to get Unc Jul to change a few nappies before he goes travelling 🙂

have you seen the golden ball yet? all white and serene inside if i remember rightly. Hampi is worth a visit-I liked it there. Say hi to Mama and Dod if you spot them in Goa.