Author Archive | Mona Lyn Reese

Baubles, Bangles and Bindis!!!!

Look at all the lovely bangles! If you’re going to a wedding or any event, you must have bangles and jewelry to match your outfit. There are many small bangle shops, stalls really, along Commercial Street and the side streets that lead from it. Each shop has thousands and thousands of bangles, necklaces, earrings, hair […]

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Monday is Laundry Day

What the heck is this? Never seen it before? This is a state-of-the-art washing rock. It has running water and everything. You get your bucket of soapy water, complete with Tide (for bucket-wash), another bucket for rinsing, a hose, this rock and there you are. We saw this washing-rock behind the SAP guest house, one […]

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The Broken Toe

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Shoot! I was running up the stairs and slammed my foot into the riser. Hurt like mad too. Lakshmi is always saying “Slowly Madam”, well Madam is definitely slow now! I had this little foot incident mid-morning on Tuesday. I really thought I had just stubbed it hard. I hobbled to the couch; Lakshmi put […]

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