Our tree is bursting with mangoes
So we needed a little help
and shared with a neighbour.
We’re almost moved in — well sufficiently to welcome our new guests.
Kurt and Loe from Belgium, the very first guests and returners, having first visited us a few years ago. How cool is that? Complete with a soon-to-be new family member.
Luca, a ‘warm showers’ guest, has reached the final stage of his fund-raising cycle ride for a school in Bangalore.
Visited years ago and since then see each year in U.K. and Mysore
Great story
Well done Sally.
No not this one …. (See footnote for notes about the photo) …
I mean … today’s team.
For the third Sunday in a row … Naveen, Deepak, Akram, Farak, Sowbaghya, and the team leader: Florian have been shifting parcels and furniture to the new house.
Thanks to our great team we’re getting ready take over the new house by the end of March
Foot factoid
But what about that photograph from the early 90s?
This is part of our team when Jill and I managed Disability Services in Kirklees in Yorkshire, in the early 90s.
It’s an example of our fearless coordinators.
They came to work in shorts to do the can-can, suggesting that I was pushing rules to the limit by wearing my shorts to work. Great that they were confident to take the piss out of their boss.
We did work on creating an inclusive culture.
We’re about to move into a new house.
It’s been a challenge at times with over ten years grieving after Manjula’s diagnosis.
But first MAnjula and our team has continued to do good
Welcoming guests to our home, helping them to love India in their own sweet way
Supporting young people through …
Sponsoring Kaveri and Naveen’s education
Creating innovative events with NGOs and schools within our community for nearly 200 young people
Gifting bicycles, almost 50 since we got engaged
Regular reflective space meetings at mysore BnB for individuals and groups of young people
.
So what next?
We’re moving house and will relaunch (rooms will continue to be available later in the year). Do check http://www.manjulasmysore.in
We’ve committed to supporting Naveen through college and will offer work at the BnB
Our immediate priority will be to sell the art ( ( MAnjula was right, I collected too much) and the money will go towards our next goals in supporting young people (and maybe some more elders.)
Watch this space ..
Into the new house.
Shifting Manjula’s library to our new house. The team were fab.
Manjula loved the joke
After acknowledging a job well done —— we realised the light switch was trapped behind the shelves.
Celebrating later at home.
Factoid
We opened Manjula’s library after her spirit left for its search.
She’d joked that my constantly bringing books home would lead to her setting up the house as a library when I stop guiding tours at age 75.
So as we never reached there together I set it up in her memory
And now it’s the first bit to establish itself at the new house.
After getting up at 4am to try and sort out the new house agreement, I had fun with the Brits (Charles and Rosie) on a cycle tour, hung out with Luka and Gingee in the drive, and Satish kindly rode my Enfield to be fixed.
I’m beginning to wonder if the first bike accident (a twit coming towards me on the wrong side of the road and round a corner on the ring road! ) — was exacerbated by my tiredness from lack of sleep.
That’s why I was — this and most mornings — awake before four.
The dogs need more contact time and to learn how to behave outside their yard. So we’re bonding and I’m watching carefully (occasionally bossing them) so they don’t chew everything in reach.
We remembered MAnjula and Lucie today in the field where we buried Lucie.
Wonderful that guests Maïlis (who was there helping support Lucie on her last day) and Maria and Ani were with us.
Also our loyal team members Satish, Akram and all put together by Sowbaghya.
And then there were dogs waiting to pounce …
Umesh has set it up as
Bow Wow pet resort and cemetery
a place for dogs to go holiday while we go on ours … plus somewhere to bury our pets, and a final resting place for dogs found on the roadside.
Thank you Hema for arranging the young generation to join me on a mycycle tour.
Hema has already joined both a Srirangapatnam and Mysore Tour. I obviously hadn’t messed up as she returned with more of the family.
Fab!
Great to meet and spend time together … Harsh, Mitali and
Joshua.
A lovely mix of US and India
Me and MYCycle 