I’ve been tagged for more music: six current fav tunes I believe; although, as I said, currently, Radio 4 has been winning lots of my ear.  I feel a little out of it musically, of late, with much of my recent listening being all the goodies I’ve been busily acquiring via my friends list now I have spare space.  Some of Warren_Ellis’s Superburst mixes are great ( Read more... )

I got all excited ‘cos I was invited to a weekend party in a hotel in Wales, with two full nights of DJs, and days filled with massage and yoga workshops, use of the hotel pool and sauna, and to crown it all, we’d be staying in giant tipis complete with open fires inside. I jiggled with joy and anticipation, inviting my limited guest quota with ( Read more... )

This year, so far has been filled with gratifying encounters, with long-standing friends who now live far away.  Spending time in Bangladesh with F&H allowed me to bond with their children, who previously I’ve seen for occasional half days interspaced with many, many months.  Their seven year old daughter, N, took to me, even before I helped her ( Read more... )

( A dull, itinerary of Bangladesh events to remind me of some things significant to me. These may, one day, help me make the proper posts this trip deserves. )

Today I saw a woman waiting for a Taxi whose face was set tight-lipped, stern.  It reminded me of a trip to Vienna during which I noticed that women there developed wrinkles in different places to here in Britain.  Little, lipstick bleeding, wrinkles around their mouths from a harsher, pinched lipped, judgemental, sternness, in women with not yet a ( Read more... )

OK, here I am, back in sunny London with head in the early hours of Bangladeshi time, and feeling just a little sleepy on it so far. What do I want to put in here now? Well, I’d like to have filled it in as I went along with all the good things, odd things, generous people, and some fabby photos of Bollywood painted rickshaws, green countryside, ( Read more... )

All fab. Christmas feeding of 1000 out the back of the house (quite literally, with 2 sacrificial cows and a mountain of rice).

Missed mangroves but in tea hills.
More later, can't stop, off for masala tea.

I'm all packed. I could fit it in a day pack if I wasn't taking a pile of presents, a Christmas cake, a stilton cheese and such gifty things.

So, I'll be having a Green & Red Christmas (that’s the colour of the Bangladeshi flag), and spending New year on a boat trip.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing my friends out there, and just being away ( Read more... )

Yesterday I posted something trite about my complete lack of clothes to take to Bangladesh, but I lost it. The motivation for this was both my gentle panic at how much I have to do before I fly, and my excitement at the opportunity of getting a whole new made to order wardrobe for next to no money.

So far on my list of things I want made is:-

Bottoms ( Read more... )

I’m getting all excited.

*twitches shoulders with excitement*

And I’ve so much to do.  Only 20 days and I have my mother’s big birthday in between, which entails a weekend in Yorkshire with sisters and little sister’s many sprogs.  This means I sort of only have this weekend to do everything.  And my cousin in law is over from Turkey. And I have ( Read more... )