Plumbing update

I'm sure you are all eagerly waiting to hear the next episode of our plumbing saga. Yes, the bathroom was very wet this morning but I didn't care because I had a fantastic full power hot shower! Sheila explained to Krishna ji that we still had a leak and the plumber returned (with a screwdriver as well as his adjustable spanners, although he used my nail scissors to extract a washer) this morning. He replaced both flexible pipes and used half a roll of PTFE tape so we now have only tiny drip, a mere weep, which we can live with. Mornings are going to be so much nicer with a proper shower!

 

Other less important news; we have a nationwide indefinite transport bandh (strike) so no buses, micro-buses or tuk-tuks which means Sheila can't get to her office. Apparently they are demanding more protection from the government after a load of buses got torched during a political demonstration down south. Despite, or more likely because of, our new Interim Constitution there are a couple of political parties in the southern region getting agitated and last week a protestor got killed with everyone claiming it was a Maoist that shot him. The town is now under curfew and people are demanding that the Prime Minister goes on TV to ask the protestors to cool it. The paranoid politics here are not helped by the US Ambassador continuing to put out scare stories about the Maoists. Apart from saying that the US will cut off aid to any Ministeries that Maoist politicians are put in charge of when they join government in a few weeks time, he has recently claimed that the Maoists are buying junk weapons from India to hand over to the UN arms management team that is now in place. It remains a mystery to me why the US feels it needs to interfere in a country that is about as far away from home as you can get, has no oil, no nuclear programme, definitely no weapons of mass destruction and is sandwiched between the 2 largest countries in the world that are quite capable of dealing with a naughty neighbour if necessary.

 

Is it snowing in the UK yet?

Cheers

Roshan