Welcome to our new home

March 23, 2026March 24, 2026 SFLeave a comment

and another chapter for our family community.

We’ve been here a week.

and visited Depth and Green

Nearly everyday. My fave drink is Beetroot, ginger lemonade and we all like the veggie burger, pasta, pizza and apple pie! When they’re available.

But very sorry to let Gingee go …

Two young dogs had proven too much.

And Kaveri set out on a ‘new foot’ with a bath for Lucca

Breakfast is ready.

We’re on a slow start with Kurt and Loe returning to visit from Belgium (with a third member of family) our very first guests.

Last evening we even had games night.

Thanks for helping relaunch us.

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Manjula and Lucie in their varied forms are beginning to settle into their new home. Dragonfly and pennants are already here with a dramatic new episode to their story.

More later.

Signed and nearly delivered.

March 21, 2026 SFLeave a comment

The rental agreement is now signed by each party and confirmed by the advocate.

Not straightforward as we’re in different countries.

A busy moving weekend.

March 15, 2026 SFLeave a comment

Thank you to the two teams who moved the furniture and plants this weekend.

We also mustn’t forget the weeks of shifting that led up to this.

Thanks guys, sterling work.

It’s sixteen years, this is the place I’ve lived the longest in my 69 years.

Manjula and I created a wonderful home that we were proud to share with thousands of guests from around the world.

I’ll share more memories (there’s hundreds on this blog) but for now here’s our move from Siddarthanagar to Vijayanagar, a thirty minute journey from one side of Mysore to the other.

Today we shifted our potted plants, yesterday it was furniture.

Our great friend Sally

March 12, 2026 SFLeave a comment

Visited years ago and since then see each year in U.K. and Mysore

Great story

Well done Sally.

What a team.

February 22, 2026February 22, 2026 SFLeave a comment

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.

There’s more here.

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.