Today I was taken to yet another wedding: this time Balagram Roman Catholics: they acknowledge the Pope as boss yet use orthodox (possibly even 'old believer' style) liturgy and do it all in Malayalam for around three hours.
All I can do is sit and try to prevent my head from exploding. More detail when I can get my head around it.
Balagram Catholic wedding of Josekutty and Reena Mol
ice-cream ingredients:
It had never even been near a cow!
(As I write this web-page, I recall how long the ceremony went on and that Ajeesh and I escaped to a nearby chai-shop/café so that we could indulge ourselves in paan and other things we couldn't do in church. We went back in time for the meal: over 360 guests eating in 2 sitting!)s
Email news: a former Granada Learning colleague is coming to Goa: would I like to meet up?
Just realised part of the reason I'm having the time of my life is the child-like, carefree existence I'm currently enjoying. Is it any wonder I'm slightly reluctant to return to adulthood?
And yet it's all around me: cardamom pickers might earn Rs50 (£0·63 or $1) a day. A local child needs an operation that will cost RS20,000 (about £250) for an operation to sort his cataracts. His parents live in a shack made of plastic and straw. Ajeesh says 'we are trying to do something for him...'
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