Archive for January, 2007
Disappointed to see there are still no answers to my bird query.
I arranged on Saturday to visit Vijayawada’s juvenile detention centre with a Dutch volunteer based at Navajeevan, an NGO which cares for street- and working children. He and his wife are staying in Vijayawada for about five months, doing some voluntary work at the [...]
After a 20-minute wait I’ve managed to bag myself what must be the slowest computer in the whole room. Res-ult.
Before I move on to more pertinent topics and forget, I keep meaning to ask a bird-related question. I’d like to add a disclaimer and say that I’m not a geek or nuffink, but I’m curious [...]
“Santa Claus is not in the Bible.”
“Santa Claus isn’t in the Bible?”
“No. Santa Claus is not in the Bible.”
“He’s not in the Bible?”
“No, he’s a modern invention.”
“Oh.”
I just remembered this conversation I had with Zachariah as he (she) prepared to go on stage for our nativity during the College’s Christmas programme. She’d enquired as to [...]
So, that was Christmas Eve. Christmas Day itself was rather more sedate: we spent most of the day cooking, basking in the glorious rays of satellite television and opening the presents we’d found for each other at the Bazaar the previous day (all lovingly wrapped in yesterday’s newspapers). Having unsuccessfully tried to find a church [...]
A very happy New Year to everyone and anyone; hope you had a good Christmas.
Ours was spent in Hyderabad at the home of our Country Representative, Bharavi and his wife Sughati. After a bit of angst over whether it’d end up being a bit rubbish, it was actually a really nice day. Having missed our [...]
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