Announcement.

Help Required.

Kaveri will spend much of the Summer school holiday in April and May with me at Mysore Bed and Breakfast

She’s a great kid and nearly ten.

It’s fun.

Last year Ilaria helped me provide activities and be ‘chaperone’. More here.

We had all sorts of activities … skating, swimming, crafts, cycling and a bit of seaside. We’ll do similar this year but need help.

Can you (needs to be a woman) come and stay preferably for a minimum of three weeks. Accommodation provided and meals. Last year Ilaria came as a workaway volunteer. We tailor it to try fit in everyone’s needs and preferences.

Write if you wish to find out more.

Tours@mycycle.co

We’re not afraid to dress up.

Present

A reminder of Manjula’s beauty and attention to detail sent by our Facebook memory.

It’s been almost five years since Manjula’s spirit split….

… Off to a new life (she still keeps in touch through her messengers). But part of her remains here, her presence is felt always. In the last few months as this anniversary approaches we’ve heard from and had visits from many previous guests who remain friends. Only two weeks ago our first guest Amina from 2011 returned to kindly deliver a mindfulness session for students at the school.

We found her entry, the very first, in our guest book. In it she said

‘it’s the people that make the place’

how right she was.

The no 1 person who set it up remains with us.

The metamorphosis begins…

Vasanth and Sowbaghya are helping liaise with Sam whose team have taken on the job.

He couldn’t quite understand why I wished to preserve the number plate, as it is.

Probably no one else did either.

It’s now a piece of artistic memory in the upstairs lounge.

Ok some might say it’s just extra tat but it is part of our story.

Lalith Mahal Hotel

Stefan from Germany asked how often I visit this hotel.

Less than 30 mins walk from mysore BnB it’s an obvious place to walk Lucie and drop in for a drink.

What a bunch

It’s a wonderful place.

Fact is it’s infrequently that I visit

When guests are into the idea and I show the way, and Lucie appreciates the walk.

But what a fab place.

The car returns in bits.

The velvet padded roof from inside has been retained and brought back home. Later we’ll decide if it can be repaired and used.

The seats, floor covers, windows, window mechanisms are all now here, so they’re less likely to get lost or damaged.

Our new team member, whose team will do the work, seems detailed enough, checking each step of the way. The carburettor needs replacing, the battery will be shifted as part of installing disc brakes.

Duty Done

Not satisfied with one, here’s number two

Kaveri and I appearing yet again.

Her alter ego altered from Christmas girl to Elfie.

This time for the 100 children at her school Kaliyuvamane.

Elfie leaped ahead, to translate the mumbles of Santa to explain the most important gift we can give is at no cost, which is to care and be kind.

We jointly prepared 100 bags of sweets for the students.

A great opportunity to apply the times tables (bits of them anyway) working out systems to fill them, fold them, then pile and pack them.

Adam Smith would have been proud of our ingenuity and innovation.

A combo of system, specialism and adaptability. Ok it’s small and simple but helped me realise —- Doing projects is the learning way forward.

So I could explain that there are thousands of us helping share his caring message, as there’s too many daytime events for him to get round them all, all at once. I’ve never met him I just get requests to appear so I don’t know if he’s real or not.

Don’t ask me how he manages go fill so many stockings in one night.

As Kaveri doesn’t get a holiday from school our Christmas Day is postponed to New Year’s Eve, when she’ll be on Sunday holiday. Coincidentally it’s someone else’s birthday.