Here's a cockerel snoozing on a dog

Slumbags

While Tilda is here, she's working at the slum, cataloguing all the bags they make there for sale.  She got the children to model.

 

 

Who said Jimmy Hill was dead? Eh, Justin?

Tilda Whitby's here!

How to get seven people on a moped

The lady on the left isn't on the moped, but the lady in orange and blue is holding a baby

Practising for next year's pooram?

For Willie, Manf, Eck - remember Buttons of Nassau?

  It's gone global - Kacharakanahalli's Got Talent?

Fatboy Slum?

VERY loud bangra house music coming from this home at 10am

We visited a slum in Banaswadi, near where we live

 

This girl was lovely - and the baby was teeny, but had so much hair

The girl in blue modelled some bags for us - she's adorable

 

 

 

     

I took a few photos of this boy with his dyed chick and he adopted this Bollywood pose in all of them

 

Kabini Tiger Reserve

We didn't see any tigers.  Apparently we saw a leopard. We definitely saw lots of peacocks and monkeys and deer-things, and wild boar and hairy mammothy cow things.  And lots of elephants.  One of the elephants even gave us a jolly good trumpet as he went past. ("Hup 2, 3, 4 Keep it up 2, 3, 4 Company sound off!").  We also found a frog in our rucksack.

Bangers in Bangers

This is the background photo for the blog - a typical Bangalore main street at any time of the day

Our own jacuzzi at Red Earth

Non ci piove, Piccia! Doesn't rain on it...

Dad's here!

And we're off to Kabini to do some tiger-spotting.

Colourful tuk-tuk

We admired this tuk-tuk so the driver took some photos of us in it.

A very big tree for John and Ivan

"You've GOT to take a picture of that for the Brothers"

Tidgy's new pen

This pen is REALLY good fun!

Happy birthday Kate

With love to Liz, Patrick, Ruth and Christian xxxx

Gone native...

Tidgy is a sikh

A message for Uncle Hugh

Tidge's 6th birthday party photos

I know this is very late, but I've had trouble accessing the photos.  There are more to come - all courtesy of the amazing Piccia - thank you darling for lovely photes. x

Up to no good...

Funky moves, Rufus!

Tidgy's girlfriend - the lovely Paige

We miss you Melissa - can we Skype this weekend?

Very stubborn pinata

Ditto

Ditto

Fast forward to 19 years old...

Goats

A large herd of goats filed past our house yesterday - we saw them later chowing down on some tasty breakfast...

Legless...

...but, as Chutney says, fairly 'armless. Boom boom.

I think he's been front-loading before 'dry' election week.

Noelene and Tania...

...who look after Tidge after school