26th February 2012

Decided to just take it easy today as it is Sunday and lots of the shops, banks and bazaars are closed. When we eventually got up we saw that we had made a good job of cleaning the dust from inside the house, but the front porch and tiled area around the house had lots of dust, so to prevent trailing it back inside every time we went in and out. Geoff volunteered to clean and swill the porch area. There are no road drains to swill water and dirt away and he soon ended up with a muddy lake outside the house which then quickly dried into a layer of dust on the roadway outside the house. Somehow over the next couple of days this layer of dust dissipated, so we assume it must have got blown about and re-distributed across everyone's entrances!! Went for a lovely lunch (vegetarian tally) at one of the local restaurants, called at the local tailor (again!) to get sari blouses altered/made, there seems to be an inverse law where the smaller the garment the more difficult it is to get it to fit correctly. I think there may be a conspiracy among Indian tailors to always make the sari blouses too small so that women's boobs look better !! Walked back to the house via a stop in a nice park to just watch families playing. Bought a small hard coconut, and when home opened it discover it had lovely soft white interior with a consistency part way between the green coconut and a fully ripened brown one like we get at home. It was absolutely delicious. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Location:Navsari