Not much news but thought I'd update the blog at least to explain why I put on the recent photos! I am just so amazed at how quickly we went through the monsoon from rice seedlings in June to the harvest at the end of October and now everything is back like a dust bowl. We have had no rain since October and it shows! Apparently we won't get any until next May and we are sittling outside in T shirts during the day, though inside in coats and scarves as the offices...

Apologies for the delay since our last blog - just too depressed after all our hols were over to write anything! We had a lovely time in Royal Bardiya National park over the Tihar festival. It is in the South west of Nepal close to the Indian border and on the area called the Terai which is very flat and a lot warmer than where we are towards the mountains. A lot of the people who live there are a different ethnic caste called the Tharu though their culrure is ...

Well another two weeks has passed though as we haven't been on holiday it hasn't been that exciting. Though Gordon has finally found out how the disabled people's support system works in Nepal, and I think we can safely say "Not very well"! The government has 7Million rupees to fund disabled welfare payments. There are about 25million people in Nepal and the UN estimate on numbers of disabled people is about 7% of the population as either disabled or ...

"A double dose for Deshain" (of blog not diahorrea!) Now then, it's a while since we put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard). That's because September and October have been busy months... we've had the run up to Deshain, which is the major festival in the Nepal calendar of "many festivals" to contend with. It seems to go something like this...everyone spends most of the year talking about Deshain and how disruptive it is "nothing can...

So today is the six month anniversary of us arriving in Nepal. Sometimes it feels like no time at all and at others it seems like ages! A lot has happened and it still feels like an adventure - I suppose that's why we wanted to do this! We certainly don't have any regrets although there are things here that drive you mad - the traffic, noise, dirt, work quite often! etc but it still feels exciting and there is so much more for us still to see and do here. Anyway...