Dear stayathome
1. Shopping
I was promised a trip to a large western supermarket. A similar size to sainsbury's I supposed. How wrong can one be. It was a large corner shop crammed with all sorts, including asda anti pasta meat selection. I wonder which suitcase that came in. Any western goods are extremely expensive.
2. Tourist attraction
Charlie is the main tourist attraction here. Random people including men in their 20s come and ask if they can take a picture of Charlie. This occurs frequently. They all want to pinch his cheeks. We visited a moguls tomb . I believe there would have been more pictures taken of Charlie than the tomb.
3. Children
One thing that amazes me is when I see little children on their own weave through the heavy traffic to cross the road. Another instance of a mother working in a large hole with baby sitting on the edge. No health and safety here. Emily told me of a mother in the high commission who takes her two children 8 and 10 to one of the slums every Sunday to read to the children there. And of course the children here keep me very busy. Both want grandma. Toby is having one of his bad phases but that might be owing to the excitement of Christmas.
4. Mary
Mary the Cook and General help is catholic and we drove past the church yesterday. Emily says some convert to Christianity to get out of the caste system but even then they get a bit of a raw deal.
1. Shopping
I was promised a trip to a large western supermarket. A similar size to sainsbury's I supposed. How wrong can one be. It was a large corner shop crammed with all sorts, including asda anti pasta meat selection. I wonder which suitcase that came in. Any western goods are extremely expensive.
2. Tourist attraction
Charlie is the main tourist attraction here. Random people including men in their 20s come and ask if they can take a picture of Charlie. This occurs frequently. They all want to pinch his cheeks. We visited a moguls tomb . I believe there would have been more pictures taken of Charlie than the tomb.
3. Children
One thing that amazes me is when I see little children on their own weave through the heavy traffic to cross the road. Another instance of a mother working in a large hole with baby sitting on the edge. No health and safety here. Emily told me of a mother in the high commission who takes her two children 8 and 10 to one of the slums every Sunday to read to the children there. And of course the children here keep me very busy. Both want grandma. Toby is having one of his bad phases but that might be owing to the excitement of Christmas.
4. Mary
Mary the Cook and General help is catholic and we drove past the church yesterday. Emily says some convert to Christianity to get out of the caste system but even then they get a bit of a raw deal.
Different places, different ways. Whilst you are observing in Delhi, I am reading in East Grinstead: I am reading about the general beliefs which were extant in medieval Europe - beliefs in spirits, powers, relics and the like. I've spoken about my conversations with people who believed in a multiplicity of gods. I had read about such beliefs. Yet it was the conversation, the meeting with believers, which registered the more strongly. I take it the sight of the mother who worked in a hole (in the road?) whilst her daughter sat on the side has registered in the same way with you.
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And I work on. I have a goal of 750 words tomorrow.
But I'm going to bed now.
Ancient