Hi there, Vinny.
We are fine here, just getting over the festive season. It's quite cold and wet here today, with temperature 0 deg C forecast tonight- not as cold as some, but cold enough for me.
I'll post some more pics tomorrow....although I think I have posted most of the contrasting ones.
Still kicking myself I had no usable batteries when we went to the hindu festival. I've got one taken outside I can use, though.
How are things in India?
Let us know if you and SuperG get to meet, won't you?
cicerone imposter wrote:My wife isn't feeling too good, but she's determined to visit her sister's for some chow. We will not be staying long. HAPPY NEW YEAR to one and all!
We picked up a calendar from our local Chinese restaurant...year of the dog, so Happy Chow Mein.
Steve (as 41oo) wrote:We picked up a calendar from our local Chinese restaurant...year of the dog, so Happy Chow Mein.
So this could be another nice present:
Quote:Available December 1, 2005 -Price $5.95 -- 8 a.m. EST) - The Bureau of Engraving and Printing proudly presents an exciting addition to its Lucky Money Collection - Year of the Dog. This uncirculated $1 note with a serial number beginning with "8888" is beautifully packaged to bring you good fortune and prosperity in the New Lunar Year. Bulk pricing is available for this product.
US Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Btw: they sell 32 uncut $1 notes for $50 - shouldn't that be cheaper because the cutting has to be done at home and they don't have to use their cutting maschine?)
She's still under the weather, and using everything in her arsenal of treatments to fight it. She's up and around, but with kleenex stuck up her nose. Poor woman has scabs all over her nose and upper lips.
Does vasoline help to avoid the soreness? I wish her well.
JLN, Thank you for your good thoughts. My wife is a "wound nurse," so she has everything to take care of her skin.
We have a healing and soothing ointment available here, sold under the name of Sudofed.
If you can get some of that, it is good for everything up to and including bullet exit wounds.
Hmmm, here I use SudAfed as a nasal decongestion. It contains an ingredient necessary for the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine.
Sudafed used to be a prescription drug some decades ago. I've since started to take atarax which is also a decongestant, but I use it for the prevention of hives.
You use it to eliminate bee hives? Strange.
Skin hives, JLN. It can really become uncomfortable when the rash beings all over your body. Many years ago when I failed to take my atarax, I had to go to the hospital to get a adrenalin shot. I never forget to take my pills daily, and atarax more than once if that "feeling" comes about.
BTW, my wife must be feeling much better, because although her coughs have not subsided, she wanted to go out for breakfast this morning at IHOP, and she went in to "work" on some paperwork at the hospital.
McTag wrote:We have a healing and soothing ointment available here, sold under the name of Sudofed.
If you can get some of that, it is good for everything up to and including bullet exit wounds.
Cancel that order, I meant Sudocreme
(You see how healthy I am, I never need to use medicines :wink: )
This is the place we stayed at in Bangalore, a friend's flat. A view from the balcony.
I never got to try the swimming pool...faint heart.
The auto-rickshaw chassis can be adapted to a number of uses: delivery truck, builders' runabout, ambulance even.
Seen in Bangalore
cold medicines, bee hives and balconies. Love it!
Lovely pictures, McTag. That pool looks inviting.
From small to large:
Elephant with mahout moving logs, Mudumalai
Calicut railway station, early
The long and the short of it:
Two Calicut railway porters wearing the versatile lungi, I think it's called. The porters can be recognised by their red shirts, and very useful chaps they are. One can carry about four suitcases, two on his head and one in each hand. Amazing to see.
