Hey Em, decided this is alot better way of contact than facebook, glad your still having fun and over your illnesses! xxx

hi em Nice blog. Himalayas by the way - 'as' not 'ers'!! Busy day today but had to say I did enjoy reading the latest blog. Hope it keeps being a great experience. Some trees are daring to put forth blossoms. St Marys was a nice experience - v warm people and open. Cha is seeing the Sound of Music sights today apparently. 'The hills are alive' - you could have sung that - or 'doh re me'....... You sound v busy Take care love Mum

Ground control to Intrepid traveller number one, Emy you're missing Spring Im sending you a big fat virtual St David's day daffodill. Oh and a lamb too. I really hope you're feeling better, you must be a walking talking medecine cabinet!! Oh but i love your photos, Mr. Beaton would be proud!! The smog looks terrible, it must just clog up the back of your throat? Anyway, so alls well here: not really balancing work and play, i seem to have left the art of that in my classics files?? had a weekend at home last week with jax whose doing a journalism masters at leeds. Joined the oxf uni gym today which is much closer than the brookes one, totally intimidated by te ox rowers though!! Anyway so charlotte church is preggers..thats the news i sure ud rather hear!! Hows the hassle out there? Please dont do anything to your locks though..they're so good at the mo. Hide. Scream. Shout. Stamp your feet. Right must go and have breakkie and crack on with some vauation report. Bleugh!! love and hugs tor xx

 Hi darling Em

Thought this smilie face was fun - didn't realise it was a tongue sticking out - sorry!! - thought it was nice bright lip stick!! Anyway just to say we've seen your fab photos - lovely and such a fantastic record. One photo you had horrendous black rings under your eyes - you were still v under the weather. The final one of you and Amy is wonderful wonderful. Tonight we are having a total eclipse of the moon - ie moon goes blood red. Incredible. Gives me a starting point for my sermon tomorw - I'm going to another church - they invited me some time ago. In fact I'll have to take the whole service as the vicar, Melanie, has been hit in the face by a tree!! Don't ask.

Rob came home for 2 nights which was nice. Cha has gone off now Manchester first then Salzburg. Dad and I plod on. We will have a few days off after Easter and no Sunday off til we go to Denmark in June! Oh apart from Dad preaching at Westminster Abbey on Palm Sunday. That'll be nice for me if not for him! Dad's time as chaplain to the High Sherriff comes to an end soon so no more posh dinners and law court lunches. Its been interesting.

Hope you have a good experience at the rehab place. The others look nice by the way. Must dash. Bed beckons.

lots of love

mum and dad xx

Hi Em I wonder how you are now you are in a cleaner place? Better I hope. Your last entry was fascinating. I guess everything is so intense because you are in such a different culture. So eventful and colourful an busy. Rickshaw drivers sound awful - whisky? In India? Obviously no drink-driving campaign there. Lent underway here and my first Lent group tomorrow. Would like to see you in a sari! people sound v kind. Only lost one pound this week - entertained and drank whisky too! Oh well nearly lost a stone. Life plods on here. Cha is going to Salzburg for 3 days next week, lucky thing. Take care and get strong darling. Lots and Lots of love Mum xx

Poppet! You do sound like you've been through the wars. I sympathise: when I was in India during October I just drank coca cola for four days. Sorts you out a treat! Get well soon. 

I'm glad you go to see Jaipur: it's crazy, isn't it? I know exactly what you mean about the staring and the photos; just think, fame at last!

As you noticed on facebook, I got dispatched to Mumbai last week for four days. I can't say it was an enjoyable experience! I had to set up, operate and de-rig a cricket system and all my "helpers" were Indian men: no WAY were they going to listen to a white girl from Hull! Anyway, despite them asking me repeatedly where my husband was (i.e. who has let this heathen Engish girl out on her own) and babbling away in Hindi when they spoke perfectly good English, we got the job done. I think I've earned my stripes with two Indian Visas in my passport!

It sounds like you've had a real impact in Delhi and best of luck with the next adventure. Lozzie x x

hey darling,

 sounds like a horrific experience you've been going through, glad you're mainly over it, just make sure you take it easy for a bit, plain food and try and gain back some of the weight you must have lost!  I can't find the antibiotics they gave you, we must not have the brands over here, Ciprofloxacin is the best broad spectrum for gastroenteritis though if you get ill again.  I finally managed to get through to your phone after days, it wouldn't let me send a message before, to either phone, but the rehydration sachets are really important because you need salts aswell if you're vomiting and having diarrhoea.  Glad you got to see jaipur though and chowki dani, that was one of our best nights, though in the future, please do not allow someone to drive you who is simutaneously polishing off a bottle of whisky, india roads are dangerous enough at the best of times!  Have a good trip up north and enjoy the mountain air and your new project.  ooh and it took me a long time to get right after the gastroenteritis, I was actually still ill when I got back, and i never had to go to hospital with it! but if your diarrhoea persists and you lose more weight there are a few things you can get whilst abroad which antibiotics don't clear up, so you ought to get it checked out, cos they need getting rid of.  Ok, im going to get back to my revision, exams in a week!  Have fun in the highlands, hope the new project is as fulfilling as the last, xxx

Hi darling Em terrifying reading your entry - if you feel unwell in the future don't wait until you are at death's door!! Hope you have noted the antibiotics that you are allergic to. The contraption the nurses brought you would have been a nebuliser - v good for asthma. It saves the strain on your heart that having an asthma attack brings - so be careful if you have another episode. It isn't worth stuggling on - take the medicine!! I'm also on antibiotics [merely amoxicyllin] for a chest infection that half of Sheffield seems to have gone down with. I really feel unwell and unheard of have cancelled a meeting tonight. Mind you last night's PCC meeting finished me off too. Weightwatchers is going well - I've lost 12 lbs so far - not bad eh? Missed the gym this week as too busy or under the weather. Had Chris Bone and Christina Scotland stay over the weekend - Dad and I are marrying them in June. Had a nice time and cooked lots of lovely Weightwatchers recipes! Lent starts tomorrow so am preaching in the evening Ash Wed service. I'm running one of the groups and have prepared the material with Hallam Methodist Minister who I get on with v well. She is a mere 40 years old and nice. Locked myself out of the house first thing this morning - disaster - as I was expecting Tapton school year 8 kids to come to church for an hour and couldn't get there in time. In the end the secretary came and picked me up [I'd started walking] and the verger let the school in and Dad eventually cmae and gave me my keys and car. I had to then dash to a nursing home to do a short service. Dear me. All ended OK but glad it is the end of the day. I shall ditch alcohol completely for Lent. I have virtually given it up anyway. Dad is enjoying his Renault Scenic - it does drive smoothly I must say. Rob keeps running out of money but at least has found a house with 7 other mates for next year [ as has Izzy]. Cha has a bum job at the moment - shame -but at least it'll pay for her trip to Salzburg a the beginning of March. Enjoy your last week in Delhi and safe trip up north at the end of the week. Lots and lots of love, Mumxx

Hey!

Hope you're all good. Just wanted to confess to being a copycat and to ask for your forgiveness?! Cos OffExploring are offering free sites for a limited time, so thought I'd better jump on board while I had the chance. Not that there's anything on there yet, but hey. Will be in touch soon.

Lots of love xxx

Hey hey hey missy india!! I wrote you a very intelligible message on facebook but no reply plus no-one else has so i thought well maybe you're not using it that muich...but CAUTION dont let ur facebook expire will you!! Travesty...mind you if ur in india i guess u have WAAY more exciting things to do with ur time than perve on facebook...wheras I have a very difficult choice here....hmmm...a bit of snooping OR reading up on some corporate strategy for real estate ...ooh if i am feeling keen i could push it to economic theories and look at some graphs??! Well so,,how is it all...people seem to be reading ythings u wriote but i cant find a diary of sorts so so far i think this site is s***e....but then thats probably hugely unfair and more a reflection on my non-existant technology skills!! Anyway i am imagining you jangling with jewellery, brighly clad in cool new pur-chases, wielding an oar to fend off the urchins, and stinking of cumin...LOVE YOU MISS YOU!! Ha ha ..ooh well its valentines tomorrow yuk yuk yuk and its another year of girly suppers!! Instead of roderigos or whatever that place is in durham, spags thats it, we're having cocktail party at home...oh and i was told about these great ones the other day a pinky with the base of gin and grenadine and other stuff and then a perky which is vodka and grapefruit and cant remember what else...childish and deadly at the smae time!! So, its all fun and games, goigmg for an evvening at the ashmolean ce soir, just played squash, its rubbish having only boys to play with, they just laugh as they run me round...ha ha, oh taken up rowing, loving the guns!! What else?? Nearly lambing time at home, going to do a stint of Mary-ing one weekend! Got a job for next year, thrilled. Made fab pigeon stew last weekend, havent fallen in love, but fall off my bike regularly, bumped into ed swift and had lunch last week, skiied in the park last week in oxf, too many bloody boarders though, nearly died on a jump, so funny brookes is so much more pub sch than dur!! Thats all my mind can randomly dredge up, huge hugs and happy pancakes for nect week!! love tor xxx

Hey Emma,Am so glad to hear that you are enjoying yourself - it sounds like such a great experience :o) That book you mentioned sounds an interesting read- those types of facts really put life into perspective I think.Am really enjoying myself here in Italy - the language is coming along, sometimes slow sometimes fast - I seem to be getting better in bursts! It is a bit exhausting at times, especially when tired and I can't think of the words, however I'm enjoying the experience. I've joined a 'hiphop' dance class where I am most certainly the worst dancer but it is a laugh :o). Am also searching for a job for next month - will let you know how I get on.Take care and lots of love,Tessa xx

Hey Emma

Great to hear all about the travels - have u considered working in journalism?! (hehe, joke) India sounds eye-opening, I'm sure u will hate mainstream English life when u're back! Not much to report this end, though the weather is amazing (t-shirts in Feb?!). Keep up with the updates and look forward to the pics (or have u added them, this website confuses me..). Patrick x