update

Hi not from India but the Perth Hills. I know I'm not in India because it's not blistering hot, and the water and power supplies have been constant

:-) . Upon opening the newspaper at sparrows fart last Tuesday morning we discovered why we had no water. A major pipe had burst in Vasant Kunj, and most of South Delhi had been without water for two days. We must have more water storage tanks on the roof than we thought, or all the rest of the building must have been away on holiday for our water to have lasted as long as it did. Anyway, that was restored midway through last Tuesday and Rod was free to wash again. Phew...

The landlord turned up later that day with an electrician to sort out the electricity supply. Rod had used his multimeter to determine one of the feeds coming into the fuse box was dead. To do the same thing, the electrician used a lightbulb with two (bare) wires attached. We had no lightbulb moment - there was no flicker at all, so the electrician, the landlord and Rod trooped down to the building's fuse box around the back. One of the fuses feeding our floor had died. This wasn't one of those lovely, easy to fix, flick the switch back into the up position fuses. This was one of those old fashioned, wire ones. Being a typical Indian tradesman, the electrician had turned up with no tools. All he had was his lightbulb with two wires, so he had to use Rod's screwdriver and one of his wires to fix the fuse. But light, and AC were restored to the entire house, and Rod was able to reduce the "health and safety" nightmare D59 had become.

p.s. Passing through Indira Gandhi Airport was actually a breeze. The information boards didn't want to tell us the right information, feeling we'd like to check in at blocks G-H. We could have, possibly, but the check in staff at block D had our booking. They also weren't busy, probably because everyone was wandering down to the wrong set of desks!