The fog.....

It's been mighty cold here in Delhi, people are gathering sticks & twigs, anything that'll do as firewood, even hanging in trees hooking off dead branches to burn on fires burning by the roadsides, the smog hangs thick in the air, some days the sky is just yellow, it's disgusting.

We complain that we're cold, which is true given these houses don't have central heating .. but hey we have a roof over our heads, and a few oil heaters we snuggle around and warm clothes & blankets .. which is a hell of a lot more than most here.

Xanthe was in her bed last night and told me she'd been thinking about kids being cold here and wanted to give someone her blanket she'd got in Disneyland ... so tomorrow we go through all their cupboards, dig out clothes baby blankets etc. There's a flyover not far away, highly populated and I know there'll be lots of takers for the warm stuff that just sits in our cupboards unused.

This morning we woke to the thickest fog we've ever seen here....

and the girls had a ball playing " hidies" in it!