Sitting at the airport now, just waiting for our flight to be called. Its been an exciting,emotional,exhausting 7 months in India. Can't wait to land in the UK, although not looking forward to the cold as I think it will be a real shock to the system!
One last observation from the streets of Mumbai before we hit normality. I've mentioned the huge amount of pipe laying going on at the moment and the way the workers dig the trench manually. So starting point is a heavy metal pole around 2m long which has a spike on the end to break the road surface up. Lift pole up above your head and slam it, spike first, into the road. A very skillful job, maximum concentration required especially as the man working and the one standing next to him are all wearing flip flops! What could possible go wrong. It reminds me of the slapstick films where the action is predictable. I imagine that of the three guys standing round the main man all have jobs too - two to free the man from the road surface when he spears his foot and the other one to pull it out as the guy would have passed out! The two can then take the injured man to the side of the road whilst the other gets on with breaking through the road surfacen in a seemless example of efficency!
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