One year down...

Today is the first anniversary of our departure from Britain. You'd think in all that time we'd have learnt a few things about life in India. For example, it's a good idea to have lots of torches to deal with the frequent power failures. It's even better if you know where they are before the lights go out! We have a battery powered emergency light which comes on when the mains power fails. This gives us enough light to find the important things we need, like torches. But last night I gave the emergency light to Thalia, because the lights went out just as she'd put the conditioner on her hair. Her need was the greatest. But what I should have done was located another torch before I handed over the emergency light, because once it was in her bathroom, I was in the dark!