Good news everyone we have been joined by our very own international affairs reporter!
Rachel Alquorn lately a spinster of this parish has kindly removed herself to Bangalore in India. We offered to pay her council tax but she insisted that the poor and deprived of Bangalore were crying out for her help. We wait to see what amazing acts will be performed by the poor of India after Rachel gets through teaching them Gaelic, we are sure though that the world as we know it will be transformed. Personally and since it is Mela time in Edinburgh I already love Scottish and Indian fusion. Haggis samosa, Bangra and Celtic music fusion, corner shops were you can buy pakora and tattie scones, as well as the Sunday Post and the latest Bollywood DVD all make Scotland the place it is.
If we are lucky Rachel will drop us some thoughts and impressions of her travels, I am told she has already been in search of the Himalayan Yeti, (Very tempted to do a joke that involves her coming back with out the yeti but with something that sounds similar starting with the letter "L".) if she can forgive me for that bad taste joke we may get some regular feedback about her thoughts and impressions of life, culture, and anything else she fancies turning her journalistic eye on.
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It's Mela time in Edinburgh? Aww and I'm missing it. It's been a while since I logged on here ... constraints of not having internet in the flat!
This week I'm researching and writing a piece on poverty and Indian social services that are available. A small topic that may take me some years!!!!
will work on writing something really interesting here soon ... until then ...
what is a shoppe? I saw one the other day and wondered ... it was beside the food kabin. Also if I want to rent a flate here I can visit the realtor. Just some snippets of life here that makes me laugh.
The best one is buying "cock" at the shop. It's normally found beside fanta and sprite ...
GEORGE
A couple of things cross my mind.
One is that mental state of which you speak that does not descend into depression.
One comment is that we cannot not "think'. If our 'thinking' has some sort of focus that would keep us from moving down the 'depression' direction.
Mention of your friend Rachel being in India reminded me of my own past 'walking experiences' in India and Pakistan in the 1950s. I would like to go there once again as I had quite a good time there. The people that I met up with were very kindly and did not mind that I was in quest of Buddha and his philosophy. In fact they were really very helpful and I had a quite good time out there.
See you next time.
Jim in Leith.
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