Hiranandani Gardens is an interesting place to live, a blend of East meets West which makes the transition into India slightly easier. However you still get enough of everyday India to fill a blog!
The latest is the road resurfacing or rather large patches of resurfacing going on at present. Surprisingly they are resurfacing a tarmac road using tarmac and not the bricksets or concrete they love so much. No fancy tarmac machines so issue No 1, how to heat up the barrels of tar? Step 1 lay two 40 gallon drums on their side and build a fire in between them and leave until tar is hot enough. Now I've not seen quite how they pick up barrels once they are that hot but obviously they do somehow. Next stage is to mix it with the chippings and lay it and finally roadroller to make the bumpiest surface known to man! I think I've found out what the problem is - no traffic control at all. Rather than shutting off the road to allow the long process to complete the workforce leave the road open and drivers simply pick their way through the work going on, so no matter how good a roadroller is, the traffic driving through soft road surface puts dents in the new surface that can't be straightened out!
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