January 2009
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Anjuna Beach
Yesterday was market day at Anjuna beach, where we have been staying for the last few days, and visitors come from all the beaches in the area to shop. The market has grown since I was last there, as there is no natural limit how fra the market stalls can spread the market has become a many limbed sprawling beast.
Unfortunately the increased size does not in anyway indicate increased variety. The...
Slumdog Millionaire
A couple of the Lost Boys were lucky enough to get press passes to the premier of Slumdog Millionaire on the 22nd of January thanks to Joey who does marketing for the Times of India. By all accounts it was a glamorous event where all the stars of Bollywood came out to shine. Apparently this is rather rare, to draw such a star studded crowd, so what was it about Danny Boyle’s new film that...
Goa
We find ourselves alone again in Goa. The last few days were hectically filled as we dragged all over the place by the lost boys. My friend Sid invited us to share a boys weekend away here with his closest friends. They are a lovely group of boys who I’ve named the lost boys because despite all being in their late 20’s the minute they are together – which appears to be all of their...
Security
More than a few people both here and at home have asked us it we feel nervous being in Mumbai so soon after the November terrorist attack, and now that we are I have to say answer is clearly no. From the popularity of the Leopald Cafe it clears that many others are not nervous either.
Just 3 days after the attack Leopald’s was open for business despite having been one of the focal points of...
Shooting
We spent our fourth day as extras at a ‘shooting’ as my Indian agent Kiran so sweetly calls them. It was for a soap called ‘Viva’ which follows the lives of some newly weds. We were playing guests at a charity function. Our day started in wardrobe at the TV studios, where I was handed a rather cheap looking black sequined sheath dress, while Andrew was given a shiny grey...
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Your Quirky Baby
Over Christmas I got see my 2 little nephews, sadly only one in person and the other burbling at me over Skype. Anyway it got me thinking that’s it’s about time I did something on here for the next generation. After all plenty of my friends and colleagues are popping out sprogs these days!
So these are my favourite finds for little people – click on each image to go to the product:
Creativity is...
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Next generation vampires
I was mildly obsessed (can one be obsessed mildly or is that an oxymoron?) with Vampires in my adolescence, reading every vampire novel I could get my hands on. I was a little in love with Lestat from Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, at least until Tom Cruise played him in the movie (yuk!), and with nearly every one of Poppy Z Brite’s characters. Every Halloween I donned my custom fitted fangs and...
A pre-travel travel log
I filed my application for my India visa yesterday and ordered my travels cheques, I’ve only got 2 more days at work and we move out of our house on Wednesday. My lovely husband is back and a week today we’ll be flying to India! It seems like such a long time ago that we planned this trip that it’s a bit of a shock it being to close. I have promised myself that this time I will blog because I so...
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A Happy New Year
Typically for me I left buying tickets to Barden’s Boudoir to the last minute only to find they were sold out by the time I got round to it. But despite my plans being quoshed we had a such a lovely NYE celebration that I can’t help thinking it was meant to be. Of course the best bit was getting my lovely husband back after his 9 week working holiday in the States, so it would have taken more than...