by liz scully | Jan 8, 2014 | Cultural Differences, India, The Maid
My maid seems to believe, that every item of clothing I own, must fit into one particular closet. Which is a little odd, as I live in a three bedroom house. Alone. That’s three bedrooms worth of storage and only me to fill it: for the first time in my life I have...
by liz scully | Sep 18, 2013 | Cultural Differences, India, The Maid
This is part 2 of a 3 part post. Last week I was telling you how they’ve started building in the lot next door to my apartment. They sent in JCBs to bulldozer the mature trees, in the acre of land my apartment looks over. It was horrible. But as they say, that’s...
by liz scully | Aug 27, 2013 | Cultural Differences, Food, India, The Maid
This post series could just as easily have been called ‘The gas bottle: or why I eat mostly raw’. In India, you don’t cook with plumbed in mains gas – there is no mains gas, so everyone cooks on a hob powered by a bottle of gas. Fair enough. It feels fairly luddite,...
by liz scully | Jun 23, 2013 | Cultural Differences, India, Signs, The Maid
Right, well this weeks Signage Sunday is something of an embarrassment to me. I’ve been living in this particular complex for a couple of years now. It’s beautiful and very quiet. Now I work from home, I spend most of my time here and I appreciate both of...
by liz scully | Apr 24, 2013 | Cultural Differences, Culture, India, The Maid
I found my maid asleep the other day. Just crashed out on one of the beds. Now as we know, she’s been through quite a lot in the last six months. But all the same – actually being conscious at work is one of those little nitpicky requirements I have with staff. But...
by liz scully | Apr 10, 2013 | Cultural Differences, English usage, India, The Maid
I get asked this quite often. Aren’t you lonely? Most recently by the electrician one day and the maid the next. In a one-two combo unwittingly creating potential despair in the Western mind. Here’s it’s not a crushingly personal question that you’d never actually say...
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