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A boy from Northumberland coming to terms with life in India – so says the Blog title – well I seem to be at the point where I don’t have much to say about it. This doesn’t mean I have come to terms with it, and in a country with a billion people and an ancient history I clearly can’t have exhausted the experience. I guess the original shock and awe has worn off and become commonplace – not normal but regular. In this inspirational vacuum I can only report on a few things that have caught my attention or made me smile over the last week or so:

- Saw my first sheep running free on the streets – made me feel strangely at home
- Sign for a local educational establishment advertising itself as a Pre-University Collage – surely a much more sensible selection process than A* A levels – prepare a collage that exemplifies your approach to University and learning – much more taxing than a UCAS form!
- Security guards that protect our home and person in slippers
- Got taken out at rugby practice by a 25 kg 7 yr old dutch boy
- Made surprisingly good mango mousse – courtesy of my sisters advice
- Listening to Fighting Talk podcast in the gym
- The Indian elections – interminable and incomprehensible
- A plastic orange rampant stallion ‘sculpture’ that we were presented with by Indian guests
- I love the smell of burning coconuts in the morning
- We had tomatoes growing wild in our garden – quite yummy
- My sister wearing 5 layers whatever the weather
- Dr Ingrams sense of humour

We have chose to holiday in the UK forsaking the golden tropical beaches for Alnmouth – you can take the boy out of Northumberland but ……. Now where is my Percy Lion never mind all this Tippoos tiger stuff