Check this out, for $100 you could have the plans to a tiny wooden house which includes a kitchen, bathroom, sofa, dining table and bedroom all squeezed in to a 65 sq ft home – that’s small enough to fit in to your back garden and rent out! When you factor in the building costs… Continue reading
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Saving Endangered Animals
I think this is a job I would quite like! Helping to hand rear endangered young baby animals. I wonder what the qualification requirements are! BBC Nature – In Pictures: Babies on the brinkhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/147151812 September 2011 Last updated at 00:35 In Pictures: Babies on the brink Cute and crucial, this endangered Coquerel’s sifaka infant is… Continue reading
Dino Lizard Comes To Town
This is actually an Indian chameleon, notice how the legs have changed colour to match the colour of the branch
Ugandan Engineer Dreams of Sending Astronaut To Space
I wonder whether he’s going to put his money where his mouth is and be on the maiden space flight like Richard Branson will. It seems easy to mock, but I guess even when the Germans first tested their rockets they had to start from somewhere and didn’t have books and data tables to refer… Continue reading
New Chennai Airport
Check out the new Chennai airport that is being developed at the moment. Looks like it will be a huge improvement on the current building which is looking a bit old and crusty now – it was built over 20 years ago way before air travel exploded and businesses started invading India. The bit about… Continue reading
A Little Squee!
So small and still hasn’t learned to be afraid of humans. Cats in India are VERY scared of humans.
If You Thought The West Had Banking Troubles…
There are so many things that defy logic and explanation in India that I’ve virtually given up writing about them on this blog but I feel motivated enough to write about yet another absurd Indian practice that angers me while at the same time amuses me. It’s labeled as being more efficient and yet you… Continue reading
Well Done, India!
I thought I would hold off making any public comments about the Commonwealth Games until after the actual event, mostly because being a British expat in India if you criticise anything about India the general population will jump on you and accuse you of being a bloody westerner who is always trying to put India… Continue reading
The Wisdom Tooth Extraction
I guess like most guys if we ever find a problem with our body we have a remarkable superhuman ability to put it to the back of our mind and lose it amongst all the anniversary dates and birthdays – we know technically these things should happen but they never make it far enough up… Continue reading
I Still Find Stuff Like This Funny
You know, after two and a half years (flipping heck!) in India, I really shouldn’t be finding the hodgepodge approach to the English language funny anymore, but every now and then I feel compelled to photo and share some of the unique ways English is being used here in India. The photo below was taken… Continue reading