I am so happy to be back! I went to Sainsbury's and spent £99 on food, scrubby stuff and hairdye. My hair was turning blonde which was slightly terrifying. Minuit seems okay to see me, although she disappears for hours and presumably eats food at other people's houses cos she is a tub ( Read more... )

I do not know if this works!! It is all very confusing. I feel disgusting. I feel like a very bad person. I am going to write this here so I feel better! I always think I can handle the jungle, and that it is another segment of my life. But feeling so very disgusting and so very dirty and bloody and seeing huge red bumps all over your body for so ( Read more... )

I am in a very expensive internet cafe - well it is a tiny room really with no coffee because Sri Lankans do not have coffee but TEA - and I have come here first! I am very afraid to open my emails as there will no doubt be too much work and grief and bad news. I have had no headaches yet in Sri Lanka despite the worst leeches I have ever seen, ( Read more... )

I am very tired and still have a dissertation to read but am leaving for Sri Lanka tomorrow. I still have to clean the house and love the cat, and cuddle the hamster too as well as put my hair in curlers so I will have one more day when maybe I will not look like a sweating mass. Then Tuesday I will be eating coconut curry, and maybe for that once ( Read more... )