So you have packed your wife off to the Office at 0730 in the Kota Pyjamas bought yesterday as your luggage chose not to make the trip with you courtesy of BA, you return to the hotel room and start your life as a trailing corporate spouse.
Where do you start - there can be only one answer BBC Radio 4 - with the wireless broadband in the room working after last nights wrestling with our wonderfully named cyber-butler - there is a sudden surge of reassurance as the World Service gives way to the Shipping Forecast and then slips effortlessly via Prayer for the Day into Farming Today - the side effects of lungworm in the Scottish sheep flock and the impact on the Haggis industry always good to grab the attention.
But, with due deference to Dorothy, as my wife said last night 'We are not in Bellingham now Toto' so I guess I will need to embrace the bright and gridlocked Bangalore day............and then you realise that the juxtaposition of the title is not so unusual - George Macdonald Fraser (author of the Flashman books) was stationed in an Indian Regiment in Banaglore in 1946 and also wrote 'The Steel Bonnets (1971), a history of the Border Reivers of the Anglo-Scottish Border' ... its a small world - and a crowded one from the view from my hotel balcony - enough prevarication - hello India here I come!
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Well , now I know what has been missing in my life- I need a cyber butler to serve me my technology in manageable chunks!Speaking of radio 4- If they can serialise a book about the "trauma" of a woman moving from London to the Northumbrian countryside ( which they did a couple of months ago) i think you should get your pitch in now.
Glad to know you are settling in well and embracing the local culture.
Have been skimming through various travel and tourism blurbs re Bangalore in the last few days, and have found out a few very interesting facts. Not only is Bangalore considered the fashion capital of the East! But it also has the largest number of pubs and brewerys in the whole of India!
On the down side however it does also seem that statistically all the rumours about the horrific traffic are also true, with it having the highest denisty of traffic in the world!
Keep the updates coming, and I look forward to some pics once all the rest of your gear arrives. I'm off to do some studying, followed by a late afternoon in front of the tele watching the Super League Grand Final!
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