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Celebrating One Year in India
Read about the stranger who threatened to punch me in the face, the highs and lows of the past year, and find out what’s ahead in 2019. Plus lots of cute pictures.
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Christmas & New Year at a Children’s Home
Time is a funny thing, isn’t it? All that can be experienced and lived by a soul, out of the infinity of possibilities and variations, is ordered into a nice neat line for us – a line of moment after moment after moment. Sometimes our brains slow these moments down Read more
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November: Your Questions About Me Answered
It’s an ingrained part of British culture to hold one’s feelings to oneself. Brits don’t commonly eat together, they’re rarely open to meaningful conversations and they never ever intrude into another person’s personal affairs. Welcome to India. Where are you from? Where are you staying? Are you married? You have Read more
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October: The Generosity of Children
Indian drivers make such idiotic decisions that sometimes I secretly want them to get knocked just a little bit… I’m so glad to get that off my chest. So, recently I had the pleasure of showing a close friend around Goa. Ash moved from the UK to Kolkata in February Read more
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September: Softness is the New Toughness
A big, fat, dark-brown grain of rice appears in the exact same spot on the floor under my Dalek painting every morning when I wake up. To people from warmer climates the problem is clear. It seems that an OCD-suffering gecko has been lining its scaly sphincter up every night Read more
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The Uncomfortable Truth About Will Adam
London is different. After getting off the plane, I need to kill a few hours before any of my ex-housemates get home to let me in (they’ve very kindly offered to put me up for free), so I decide to visit my favourite location in the city – the Southbank. Read more
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June: The Cow-Lady and the Monsoon
On the main junction connecting the road to the Goan capital of Panjim to the tourist strip of Candolim, a calf sat happily on the road. It wasn’t in the middle of the road, just to the side. Of course, this is a common sight in southern Asia but that Read more
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May: to Live, Preach, Work, Write & Drive in India
To Live It’s been a merry month, has May. Merry and humid. While the temperature has been in the bearable low-forties, the humidity has pushed that to feeling somewhere in the low fifties. Even the locals are finding it hard. Intense, violent thunderstorms shake the evenings up with intimidating god-like Read more
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April: Youth Camp Diaries
Its Monday. It’s youth camp time! I’m sat in the junior boys home where 50 teens are having an amazing time. Over the 2 and a half day event put on by the church, there will be games, worship, teaching, team challenges, delicious food and lots of sweat. I’m about Read more
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WEEK 8: A Momentous Moment
Week 8. Has it really been that long? I’ve been living in India for 2 months. In some ways I feel ingratiated into the way of life here and in others I still feel like a fish out of water… a very white fish. Candolim, where I have my apartment, Read more