Of daydreams and memories: what a week!!

What a week it has been, started out fine with big long lists of things to do and then Praveen gets this horrible pain in his chest...yes 44 years old and IT was happening.....thankfully we have finished the episode now and he is fine. One gigantic kick up the bum to stop smoking and drinking and take more execise and he [we] should not have to go through it again, but it was very scary at the time.

Nothing like making green mango pickle to help de-stress.....I could not sleep anyway. In an Indian hospital the care was good [we had enough money to pay for medications] but there is no nursing as I think of it from Australia- the family of the patient feeds them and does the day to day care and runs constantly back and forth to the phamacy to get medications as they are required.....so it ends up being quiet a task having someone sick...on the other hand it is good to have something to do rather than sit and panic....

In between I found it soothing to try and do normal things like chop mangoes.....

Looking for the silver lining to this big cloud....Praveen was so sick he had to let me drive him over the mountain to Ajmer Hospital.

The Mountain is a series of hairpin bends and very busy with trucks, buses and all manner of things- while Praveen has been coping with me driving in Pushkar [my driving is fine he says - he just worries for me on the roads] he has kept saying no to the Mountain..... we both knew this would one day lead to an augument and I would start anyway as I like driving and we are so busy, I need to go over there myself sometime....

Well I had to drive to hospital- truely he was having the heart attack before I took him over the mountain and I have now been back and forth about 20 times...so he now has to cope with me driving everywhere!and actually I love driving here. It is so interesting- kind of like dodgum cars but no bumping into each other. You do need to de-programme yourself- those lines on the road are just decoration not lane markers, especially the double yellow ones down the middle - they do not indicate a division between traffic going this way and that way.

One must be observant of what others are doing especially cows, donkeys, peacocks, monkeys, people on pushbikes, people on motor bikes, people in cars, buses, trucks, 3 wheelers....really the only ones that are fairly easy to predict are the camles they just plod along slowly and directly.....

Now he is out and doing fine, changing his life style enormously, I am trying not to be too clinging now I don't have to keep it all together and we are back to work--it is kind of a freaky memory of a week, a bit blury, I thought I was clear at the time but I think there was a lot of auto-pilot....hmmmm stress.

Our lovely house is progressing

Front entrance steps to Garden Courtyard

The Pukka Studio- it was a dull day yet light is good, all painted white it will work well,

View from Studio door into Studio Courtyard to the left and right- you can see the car where the images line up, big gate to go up today and it will be lockable....