by liz scully | Oct 2, 2013 | Animals, Culture, India
If you’re a regular reader of this blog – and really why would you not be? – you know that recently the trees next to my house were demolished as they gear up to start construction. As my job involves either talking with clients on the phone or chewing the end of my...
by liz scully | Sep 26, 2013 | Awards, India
This blog has won an award. It happened a few weeks back, and to be honest, I was fairly under-whelmed. The category we’ve won in – and see how I’ve cleverly included you, dear reader, in the honour of it all? – is the best ‘blog about...
by liz scully | Jul 24, 2013 | Cultural Differences, Culture
You can’t drink the water in the taps here, of course. So we all have ‘packaged water’. That’s purified in some manner so that it’s safe to drink. And is not to be confused with mineral water of the fancy variety. Packaged water is just not going to give you typhoid....
by liz scully | Jul 3, 2013 | Cultural Differences, Culture
I noticed that the checkouts were busier than usual, but I just assumed it was another festival I didn’t know anything about. Now that I work from home, I’m not really keeping up with public holidays in India as I used (though I’m hot as pepper on them in the US and...
by liz scully | Jun 6, 2013 | Awards, India
So I’ve been informed, this blog has been chosen as one of the top Indian blogs over at Indiantopblogs.com. Admittedly they’ve chosen over 500 for the honour, but there are a great many people in this country. And as far as I can tell, at least one...
by liz scully | Jun 5, 2013 | Cultural Differences, Culture, India, Reasons I live in India
Not just India is more colourful; I’m more colourful here. Those of you that know me from London, will know I’m a dedicated wearer of the go-to media colour: black. You’ll have heard me say: that if I buy something, sooner or later I’ll look at it and think, I’d...