
Day twenty-seven – Clean streets, not mean streets
Anu was abject in her apologies about the incident yesterday, but I tried to reassure her. It was absolutely nothing to do with her, and in any case I was

Anu was abject in her apologies about the incident yesterday, but I tried to reassure her. It was absolutely nothing to do with her, and in any case I was

A big day, in that the fridge issue was finally sorted, After weeks of promises of one being delivered, I went out and bought one, meeting Aparna at the Bhatti

Best part of the day came at 4 pm, when I met the Sports Club members in the Staffroom. It used to be Aparna’s space, as a base for extra-curricular

While eating my breakfast, as usual, in the Bread Box, I was summoned by text to SPA; Aashish sent a message, urgently requiring my presence. “Where are you?” No-one had

Something of a low-point for me personally. I have to tread a little carefully, as I know this blog is read fairly widely over here, and I do not want

Gave myself a stiff talking-to this morning. The problem was that I felt we were rushing into full rehearsal mode too fast, that it was not possible to cast the

Tika are the dabs of colour, usually red, but sometimes incorporating yellow as well, which are smeared on the middle of the forehead just above the nose. What they are

I had been the day before back to the tailors for a final fitting for my jacket; I had never done such a thing before in my life. The jacket

A rehearsal today, squeezed in after exams. It was going to be the big dramatic Lord Capulet loses his rag scene, but a bit of an administrative mess-up on my

Today was officially the first day of term, and so (officially) the day we began rehearsals. I know there were just a couple of rather scrappy read-throughs before Dashain, but

This, I suppose, was our first proper rehearsal. Five people were called, and all of them were there, all of them on time. And, especially for a first rehearsal, it

Chatted during the day with Dhir, the musician who had helped us out with music for the James Bond sing for Odyssey, about providing music for R4J. He seemed up