On a day without coffee, I was expected to go and sit through a concert celebrating the nth anniversary of an aunt’s dance school. I’d been to one of these things earlier, and it had been a terrific assault on the senses, so I was definitely not looking forward to it. Not when I hadn’t [...]
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Sundays are supposed to be for rest and recuperation. Not yesterday. Eight hours of general masti out on town, and am so tired I can’t sit straight and was stumbling over words in class.
Monday morning and no coffee. I’m such a zombie I could walk into a Pratchett novel and no questions asked. Hell, I [...]
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With cake, and candles, and a ‘Happy Birthday’ song - last night. It’s been ages since I’ve attended one of these, so it was great fun! LS and I took the cake, and there was all this stuff that the hosts considered ‘kid food’ - Pav Bhaji, Bissi Bele Bhaath, home-made ice-cream, stuffed capsicum (?!) [...]
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Books I read during the hols (heavy spoilers, if anything can spoil these books!)*:
The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
Atwood is as good as ever - I got hooked to her when I read the Handmaid’s Tale, continued it with Alias Grace, and so when I saw this one at the Kochi Airport book store (lovely airport, btb), [...]
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Dips is on a mountaineering course. Which means she is away in the Himalayas for 26 days. The last I spoke to her, she was in Manali, cursing the food and the fact that she had to give exams. Haven’t talked to her in ages - messaging just doesn’t cut it! And just when I [...]
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Something that people who don’t know me very well always ask on finding out I teach a class of 20-22 year-olds: “So, how many of them have a crush on you?” I usually laugh, and sometimes, if the asker is worth the trouble, explain how the answer ‘none’ is not just me being (ahem!) modest!
I [...]
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We left on the evening of the 6th - P and me. A bus to Dharamshala where we’d booked a hotel. A Volvo bus, as FM insisted. Since we booked at the last minute, we had seats in the last row of the bus - the centre one and the one next to it. FM [...]
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