I hear we, well Scotland, won the rugby yesterday and I wasn't even there to cheer them on. Still I'm sure David and Penny and Andrew used their lungs to make up for my lack. Not that we Scots are a proud nation or anything! WE just like winning... anything will do we do pretty well for such a small country really! I remember getting to lay hands on the Calcutta Cup a few years ago when it was at Murrayfield. I was there for a training course and they brought it out to show us. Remarkably impressive it was too.
Today being Sunday has been lazy, I got loads of paperwork done and very little else. went to Church to Evensong and to make my apologies for next Sunday as we shall be on route back from Kovalum. Turns out there is no evensong anyway but a concert, if we get back in time we can go to that.
I'm back at Lydia's tomorrow to help with editing again. I'll go after school with the laptop then with luck we can get lots done.
One or two pictures I thought were worth a look.
The lady carrying the big bag on her head has hotel laundry in it. It reminds me a bit of those overloaded lorries I saw on the road to Kovalum. The brick factory is amazing, a lady was sitting shaping mud into metal brick shaped frames, they then left them to dry in the sun, took them out of the frames when dry, stacked them in this big heap, filled the centre and around the outside with palm leaves, logs and coconut shells and set fire to them After the fire had died out (a day or so later) they unpacked them all and voila... bricks! The brush makers use straight twigs which are quite flexible, bind them with twine and sell them everywhere. You can get stiff ones for sweeping the water off the floor after washing it. Softer ones for dusting. Long and short ones depending on how big a job it is and they are so efficient. You can see the stiff ones and the softer green ones here.
laundryBrick factoryBrush making