And it is only our stand you can hear. The players had to use sign language and the umpires couldn't hear the balls hitting the bats. 60,000 people 99.5% at full pelt.

Was the word quiet mentioned....... I don't think so,   you need to turn your volume up to get the full effect!

In Cochin for the India/England One Day International - a nice quiet day out. 

Our erstwhile landlord delivering 'fast' breakfast drinks and what you get after the coconut man has finished his machete whittling..... 3 bowling balls small, medium and large, I can't see any fingers knocking around either.

The job requirements are owning your own machete, bits of coconut leaf tied together for your ankles, a lunghi and a head for heights. Don't recall seeing a job like this in my local jobcentre.

Coconut felling time again. This is how you get to work..

And just in case you missed it!

A neighbour

An evening visitor

The caves and transportation at Elephanta Island 

View from a Bombay flyover

The Taj Hotel again, laundry, the workers accomodation is under the tin sheets on the left. A mosque and another ornate building.

Taken from the toll road out to the airport

Chowpatty beach where everyone  meets at weekends

The Hanging Gardens in Bombay. The Kites circle over the nearby Parsi funeral ground, top picture then swoop down into the gardens, a lovely quiet place, in contrast to the rest of the city

In and around Bombay Top is the largest Laundry in India 5th up is the Taj Hotel beside the Gateway of India. and a couple of parrots