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Dear travelling lady

1  Ah, ha.  I have light about the way of composing in the normal (rather than HTML fashion).  

2  Thanks for the account of the escape.  Well done.  This first escape may lead to others.  Earlier today in Haulcon (see below) I dipped into your guide to India.  I read about the Red Fort in Delhi.  And about Old Delhi.  So there must be a New Delhi, a designation which is familiar.  So take a few sentences in the next missive to tell me about the spatial relationships between quarters, New and Old Delhis.  

3  Otherwise, I visited Haulcon.  There was a puddle on the floor.  There was no sign of water at or near the strip over the window.  Otherwise, all looked well.  You have three personal letters, including the small package which you sent to Cologne.  It had been returned because of an 'insufficient address'. The address looked OK to me.

3  I called into Larry and Jeannie.  Larry and I spoke about ..... Belfast.  Three of the four crewmen mentioned in the Times were shown in the book.  A companionable pair.  A cup of tea and a digestive and a chat.

4  A visit to the detainee.  He's the engaging one.  In a long, uninterrupted account he told me of his predicament.  He has a fear of injury or worse if he returns empty-handed to Ghana.  He borrowed the  money for his flight all those years ago.  He has not repaid any of it.  He has applied for asylum because of fear.  His case has been in the judicial system for ... years.  A removal order was cancelled recently.  And so on.  

5  I can imagine that he doesn't have the opportunity of talking in this uninterrupted way to a listener.  As I listened, I was conscious that the declaration itself may have been doing some good.  No substantive change in the situation.  Perhaps a more settled temperament.  He is still wearing the slight outfit in which he was dressed when we first met, two weeks ago.  I have asked for clothes and have just prompted Anna.

6  I will visit David tomorrow for a turbo-session.  Independent of rain.  An hour on the turbo will help things along.  

7  If you do visit the Red Fort, notice the way what we call the Indian Mutiny are handled.  The victors have the power to designate.  The initial losers, though, can mutate into the eventual victors.  In St Patrick's cathedral in Dublin there is a brass memorial to two (I sense) army officers who were killed in the Rebellion of 1916.  Rebellion is quite different, is it not, from Rising?

8  Returned from Brook House, I returned a book to the library.  A fine of £3 was to be paid.  My having two others similarly overdue books emerged.  Total fine - £9.  

9  I may visit Haulcon later on to watch a hour or more of television.

Lots of love.  

The Ancient