trump – Me and MYCycle

I’m adjusting to the time difference (this weeks excuse for inability),

But it’s not easy ..

It’s the second morning I managed to drag myself up early for yoga, I’m waiting for the teacher at the gym with three other women when another male student walks in to speak to the women in Kannada. The local language.

Our gentle giant then leaves.

After a few minutes they get up to leave, and when I ask they tell me it’s cancelled.

I was obviously too pale and linguistically ignorant for him to tell me.

Later that morning is my next challenge.

Billet-Doux clambered through the hall (lounge) window, jumps down and drops the rat which scurries away. A gift?

Sowbaghya shrieks so she doesn’t like the surprise.

I tolerate the louder and louder squeaks coming from under the divan.

I have to take action with the help of a lathe stick .

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But then Facebook brightens my day. The Donald —whilst destroying the US fabric — entertains.

PS in the middle of the night Bullet-Doux who’s supposed to be sleeping but she’s faffing around. Next I hear squeals and investigate under the bed.

The queen is eating a bat!

I can’t imagine what might happen next.

what a day!

Biscuit (aka Brexit) pales into insignificance. UKAOs just seems so small and so less relevant.

India was MODI-fied, over two years ago, with the election of the BJP party to govern India. Today in a country of one billion people Modi announced that OVERNIGHT all large denomination notes (500 and 1000 Rupees) would be abolished, imagine that? In a country with so many people, where the majority have a stash of notes at home and a significantly large minority aren’t known by the tax authorities, operate in an under-the-table-informal economy will now have to take their cash to the bank to get it exchanged. It is intended to tackle counterfeit notes, bribery, corruption, ‘black’ money and add to other polices such as IDs, bank accounts for poor people etc. that together help contribute to formalise society fully onto the ‘radar screen’.

Astonishing!

There will be much more to come. Banks are closed, ATMs not working. Once they reopen cash can be exchanged up to a maximum of 4000 Rs per day or put into a bank account within the next fifty days! These new notes will be issued in limited quantities from Thursday.

Cash chaos.

But it’s India so somehow it will all work out.

Next, we can now look forward to a President Trump!

There’s an Elephant in the room.

Is this another example of how people in UK and now the US have become so disconnected with the political classes, the establishment power and the orthodoxy they represent? People are angry and are providing a strong message, wanting a different future.

Meanwhile, ‘laid-back’ Manjula relaxes, munching on the Roses Chocs I smuggled in (equivalent of five tubs) from the UK. She gives them out to friends, neighbours and relatives…..