A formidable team

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No time for photos

I tentatively opened the garage door into kat planet.

B-A-Do was lying parallel to the limen, I thought relaxing until I noticed a quivering rat by her mouth. She half done the job but seemed to be frozen. As she pulled away I found a stick and finished the task

It’s then in noticed all eyes from the kits, mesmerisingly proud of mum, watching from their raised wooden cushioned castle. I passed the dead cat on a shovel for their approval.

Later as they were all turning and jumping in seemingly choreographed mayhem in the yard, I realised one was leading the chase of a cockroach. I followed and finished it off

We were a formidable team.

We miss the kats but mum (Queen) stays with us.

missing them ..

Summer Camp 2024 two

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Our fun activities since returning to Mysore include:

Skating

Kaveri has progressed to new skates and uniform, again with the Elite Roller Skating Academy

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Swimming

classes again at our local pool.

and a local dance centre has organised their very own summer camp.

With a day out

Metamorphosis footnote

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In India nothing ever seems to go to plan.

Delivered yesterday, there’s one or two places that need attention: bodywork, internals, indicators etc. but it’s over 89% there which is good.

So …. Sowbaghya, Antoinette and I went to the Lalith Mahal for a little celebration …

Samuella whose team did the work seems quite busy renovating other ambassadors.

He’s been working in them all his life.

Sowbaghya, with the support of Vasanth and Satish was leading from our end, the problem solving project manager.

Next morning Sowbaghya had arranged for us to take the car for Ganesh puja and the nearby Temple.

Unfortunately the battery was flat. As I said, nothing quite goes to plan.

So, a day later, the deed was done.

Metamorphosis Seven

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The beauty arrives

Manjula’s Car rises again.

I bought it for her ten years ago.

Satish and I had searched Karnataka and eventually found it in Mandya District (near Srirangapatnam).

We needed it, as due to her health Manjula couldn’t safely and comfortably continue to ride pillion on my two wheelers.

We joked that not unlike the Bollywood movie — ‘Driving Miss Daisy” there was a chauffeur ( in our case a white old, not a black guy) and not an aged white woman as passenger but a brown ageless Indian beauty — my MAnjula.

It’s arrived at our house now….

Who’d have believed it…

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Four years ago, Lucie is scrounging. Nowadays her access to street food is severely restricted as she’s getting on and sometimes had digestive issues. But this is the beginning of another story.

It was to be another two years before I met another light in my life.

Metamorphosis six

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Let’s not talk about when it was supposed to be finished.

New door mirrors installed

The cost is greater than expected but then I did add more to the list of jobs.

Special number plates are now required for all vehicles.
That number plate looks wonky.
Detail detail.

Still waiting

Summer Camp 2024 – one

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It’s the third year since meeting Kaveri.

School holiday is a great opportunity to spend wonderful adventures together.

In our first week, this year we’ve visited Kodagu, Kannur and Wayanad. A great mix of countryside, sea and sand.

Kodagu in the western ghats is a couple of hours west of Mysore.

I’ve been many time to Kannur, further west in Kerala, and taken quite a few friends. Radhika Kaveri’s sister (auntie) couldn’t join us as her mother had an accident and needed support. Lucie a French workawayer helped out at the school and stepped into the breach. A great help.

Finally Shabaz our wonderful friend from Kannur dropped is Wayanad for a final night before returning to Mysore.