Dear uphiller
Dehli greeted us with a ride to the medical centre. Emily has been suffering for the past couple of days and is no better and now Charlie has succumbed. We think it is because he's walled the swimming pool water. So hey ho both boys are asleep as is Emily, Simon is at work and I am holding the fort.
Our driver overslept this morning. We should have left at 5 but did not turn up until 5.20, so the ride to the airport and the subsequent check in was an anxious one particularly with people not feeling well. Luckily anything goes in India and our agent queue hopped us.
Welcome back to the fog of dehli though it has cleared up now and is sunny.
We had a ride in a small yacht yesterday and the captain let Toby and Charlie steer which delighted them no end. Health and safety lax, security very tight.
I do not expect to be doing much over the next couple of days as Charlie will not be able to go to nursery so I expect to be looking after him.
I was wondering about the weather and rain etc. have you been to haulcon to check the leak recently. Did you have any joy getting in touch with dan re Steve the builder. I have not had an email from him.
Noise and persuasive talk leaves a gal quite weary.
Have had your assessment mark yet?
Love the weary one
Dear Traveller, thanks for your message. Ah, the delights, and the pains, of farawaylands and travelling. I hope the two ailing ones are recovering. The supervision of a child is challenging, to use the familiar euphemism; the supervision of an ailing child is even more so. There's nothing to do other than get on with it?
ReplyDelete2 Items. (i) The Times and other newspapers have reported the rape of the foreign woman in Delhi. (ii) They have also reported the travails of the French President. The Brookes cartoons have been wonderful. You can see them when you return. (iii) I have (just) texted Dan. (iv) Haulcon is dry. The stream continues to stream in its accustomed channel. I no longer visit it every day. (v) Another session on the turbo-trainer followed by a filmed account of the preparations which four medical doctors, none of whom was a cyclist, made for a 125 mile annual ride in the Pyrenees. (vi) The mark of 54 was sufficient but unsatisfactory. I will give some time and thought to the next two, about Islam, ahead of the concluding one for this year about Taylor again. If the mark is to improve then I must increase the reading. No more WW1, more Abrahamic. As ever, the challenge is to read; not location, location, location but reading, reading, reading. (vii) I had a companionable cup of tea with Martin Green last Tuesday (when I had scheduled a visit to David/turbo rather than a day in college). He telephoned; we met in Starbucks but moved straightaway to the Bluebell Railway cafe. He was companionable, settled, at ease. He has a bike. He was receptive to the prospect of a bike-ride. (viii) Yes, I am intent on blocking out Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the course, with (the equivalent of) an additional half-day.
3 Ashley and I will meet tomorrow evening. On 2 February he will leave for four weeks in Nigeria.
4 Let me know your ETA at Gatwick. Looking forward to seeing you.
England awaits.
Lots of love
The Reader.