Saturday in Gurgaon

Well Mrs Pimms has returned to the heat and the dust
Still a little jet logged as a long day when you come back from the UK
About a 24 hr trip including the train and having to leave the other home at 3pm

Been shopping today and got one of those card reader thingies for the photos

Lets wind back to the ramp up to the big day with the hen night
wedding bus. A group of hens all dressed up and ready to party

Even Champers on tap in the party Bus








And it was a posh bus , although you can get one for free to take you to Malki's on Alki Beach ,
now where is that everyone? So long as you eat there that is

Meanwhile you ask what about the big day?
The wedding was a fantasic week as said before, victuals were delivered or taken to the fort for the monday so all we had to do was enjoy ourselves all week .

As you can see more than enough for
Mrs Pimms and Mr Bruichladdich/Blenders. well it was just right





Air Guitar along for the PS2 even joined in as it was the favourite game for the Bride and Groom, untill they returned and found the Wii that little brother and the bridesmaid had bought them, cool pressie they say
Found out today that Star wars will be released on the Wii, so get them lightsaibers charged and start practising all you Jeddi Knoghts with lots of force and a few beers.

Rather than give you the big wedding will give you the other breaking F603 news today
Mrs Pimms has had to buy some bright yellow rubber gloves to clean the...................................

dishes with.
I know you just couldn't read any further Marion and Alen!!
Well Alen at least

We fired our housekeeper today. About time.
Monies went missing and he was the only other person who had been in the house.
Of course he denied it but as the trap had been laid, and he took the bait, it had to happen.
He did go very quietly which was a little strange , no begging or any of the stuff he did when I have told him off before.
Perhaps its the 6ft 2 scots people that have this effect.
We will of course deduct monies from the last payment he is due at the end of the month.
He has also been told that he must not work for any expats here or will report him to the police.
Just to make sure he does not rip anyone else off.

Some people just don't undertand when they are onto a good thing, hopefully he will learn.
Now we have to look for someone just to visit a few times a week rather than a live outside the appartment person.
Well Mrs Pimms has to think of her nails after all and has already booked the full treatment next week.

Namaste to everyone and a very happy Mr & Mrs Such

Another day another problem

Hi Bloggites

Well tried and tried to get that camera lead thingy, only so you could enjoy the big day out
Uhu, camera is at least a year ahead of India so the man in the Sony shop told me?
Only when I got home did I think that I could of just bought a card reader and it would work ok

Apparently this is a man thing when shopping , does anyone else suffer from the same?
You know where you have in your mind what you are going to buy and just go to get that, if its not there you come back empty handed.
Now Mrs Pimms would never of done that , she would of come back with another pair of shoes and a couple of tops . mmmmm

On the subject of shopping , they are building a few shops next
to where we live , well 4 floors or 1km long and should be open
in time for xmas ( 200?)
Looks massive and we have taken a evening sunday stroll around
the outside just to see they changes
Cinema, 10 pin bowling, 5 star hotel, no doubt nail spas and loads of shops and eateries for us both, will never have to drive to the other malls again he said?

Still scorchio out here , had to have 3 showers today , just getting re-acclimatised to the weather, well at least it's not in the 40's now.

Blog has reached dizzy heights now as past 500 while we were away, there's a wee tracker on the bottom of the page to find out where people are from, hope you don't mind ?
India is catching up with the UK , even on the blog !!!

After all its all about enjoying life , Mr Blender at work to keep Mrs Pimms in manicures and pedicures and looking good, oh and we have the sights sounds and smells to blog about

Namaste

Mr Blenders

Two in one day , but aircraft this time

Well a lot of catching up and it is an online diary after all
Still no piccies though , wait till tomorrow , ok I have a few but not of the big wedding week

Lets start on a few personal Aircraft for you people out there
Now this is a story that upset a few senior people in the company but honest I was not responsible
It was still a brill laugh as they arrived one by one and created lots of talk and many requests from people for thier own. Some grumpy old man stopped it though as his initials were not used
You will have to click on them to enlarge and read he registrations
I even managed to have one called G-OSLH when we bought out (not merged) Go with easyjet , the man at the CAA suggested it.
At least these were the good piccies unlike some Mr Blender did well before this on the same company , you will see them in a book at some time in life, that is unless someone wants them destroyed? Just let HR know.

Onto a little bit before for Mr Blenders and we have where
this aviation career started back in 1978, 10 days before his birthday with a bit of tough training , 39 started and only 11 finished
Mr Blender changed his accent and became posh to all the people at home in bonnie scotland.

One the many boys toys I got to play with on the dummy deck at
Culdrose, yep at 18 we drove these around a make-believe flight deck, we also has 4 red arrow gnats to look after, but again thats another story?




Spent most of his navy time on search and rescue, and have seen a share of what he would never wish others to see, Air India , Fastnet, Lockerbie along with many others that stain the mind.






All this They also help you understand how to live to the full and thats why we are in India


Many many years later and having had to go and get a real job
This one is an ATP
Otherwise known as the Another Technical Problem or a
YUGO and tell the passengers its broke again , what a nightmare
of british invention , so overbuilt. We were told to stop calling it that under a threat of sacking. I quit now


Last for all you readers a little bit of India , honest its the real thing!!!










Namaste

Mr Blenders

Hello, its been a while

Hi all you bloggie readers out in cyberland

Mr Blenders here back hard at work in India
Well have to pay for the big day out after all.
Liz did a wonderful job on all the organisation
I just got the cheque book out , so thanks easyjet for the monies, it all helped to make a special day.

The big wedding bus was hired for the fortnight to clear out the junk from the garden at the house in Biggleswade, lots of trips to recycle eveything.
Here in India they seem to recycle just about everthing
Plastic bottles, newspapers and cardboard are all bundled up by Bunty and he trots off down the road, with a slip signed by Mr Blenders to allow him out the complex with it
He gets a few ruppees for his efforts from where ever it is he goes though, now thats the way to encourage it in the UK , but do you think it will ever happen ?

Liz and Paul were really chuffed with the wedding day transport, old dad teasing again about tandem rickshaws on the hill around the fort and look what they ended up with. Not bad for a drive along the coastal road but really glad we didn't meet the double decker bus in it.
We did hold up Mr Cody and party on a small lane, and Mrs Pimms offered to spank his bottom for being late when they arrived at the fort.
He escaped though as the bride was the compulsory 10 mins late.

Tried to get a new lead to download lots of piccies, out of luck in Gurgaon , will try tomorrow and if in luck, well you had better be prepared for lots.

Fun had in the high commision , monday for another years work visa.
All prepared with
1-Passport
2-Form filled out in black ink
3-Letter from company
4-Contract
5-Birth certificate ( just in case)
6-Drivers licence
7-Tax certificate ( yes I do pay that here )
8-Residence agreement with the 100rps cover on it.
9-£50 for the visa fee
Well I hadn't foreseen that all blogs should have a top 10 and missed out on the
10-Request for a DGCA letter ?

Tried to explain that I am not a pilot or Engineer who certifies Aircraft and will not be working for the DGCA but an airline in a Senior Management role, helping my friends out in India.
Went home without a visa.
Well flight wasn't till Tuesday night anyway and the train journeys not bad
My boss was very supportive and asked what it was like to be out of a job then? All in jest!

Next day , same people, 5 minutes later with no questions and bingo, I can have the visa.
All told , it only took around 6 hrs, so be prepared to do less sightseeing when you go to get one.

Back to a very, very, dirty house and some strange growth in the kitchen sink!
We were leaving the back door key for Bunty , so he could use the kitchen but in the early morning rush, oh nearly 4 weeks ago.
"Sir had not moved the bolts off the door".
Never mind, it kept him busy mumbling about some extra cleaning up.
Power had been cut and had to throw away the stuff in the freezer.

That magic thing has also started to happen once again as Mrs Pimms is not here, you know the one where you put your dirty clothes in the washing basket and by the next morning you find them all hung up neatly , having been washed and ironed by the dhobi fairies.

Cars been de-dented and had a respray, lasted three days as noticed a score down the back when I parked at the Cargo , yes I drove as still waiting for a new driver.
Interviews on Tuesday
Does anyone remember Whicker's World many years ago showing a Indian Driving test?
7 people and the examiner climbed into the car and drove 100 yards in a straight line , everyone passed!
Times have changed here in India.

"and now time for something completely different" The top 4
1-Once round the block, armed with a ruler ready to clip knuckles if the horn gets tooted excessively!
2-Marker pen to write a Big L and R on the back of respective hands if we take a wrong turn
3-A little bit of Hinglish as he will have to take Maam around to all the S&M that goes on here ( sewing and meeting) in Delhi and Gurgaon.
4-Daily clean and weekly check of the tyres, oil, water ect , how do you do it.

Not too much to ask for?

Namaste
Mr Blenders

Hi All well another update in stardate xxxxx

Hi blog readers , seagulls and very hungry ones to start

Been a busy week for Mr Pimms

Out to the US of A for a week just before the big day

Seen a few friends who I have not seen for a few years as we went for vendor A in the last company , it was all about money not about the Aircraft as thats what talks in big numbers and believe me it was BIG numbers when you buy over a hundred at millions each. I will not publish but you could ask in person for a fee!!!

Well what did Mr Blenders have in Seattle this time?

New yorker Steak , yum yum and about 16oz with it, all protein so ok with that on the lets get heavier whilst in the UK

Must eat more pulses and less fatty stuffs as not much more to go , well for Mr Blenders at least , Mrs Pimms is on a report with the cruel Mr Gym man when she gets back!!!

Meanwhile , what goes on in life as we know it!

Well managed to get a free pass for this place whilst walking past on the other side of the street, honest we did?

I think someone I know would like one as he has been before

No names as he knows who he is???

Just never try to claim on exes , as you never know who might take advantage of the situation!!

Sorry @@@@@

Seattle is a really nice place , loads of fantastic eateries, good people and a really good trip for anyone to take, top of my list of what cities in the world wide wish list everyone whould visit

You can even see the fish throwing if you want to on Pike street market but will let you imagine that one till you visit

Namaste freinds

Blogging update

Hi its Mr B again for the update on India's 60th

Was nice to see all the kids putting on a show at the complex to celebrate the start of their countries 60th year of independence.






We all celebrated the day before with veggie food for lunch and a best T shirt day at work, a couple of prizes given out by the HR department to people from the office, yep you are being blogged people!






There was even another gorra, who didn't make it to being first in line on the free food.
I didn't get there first for a change this time!
A least it meant no breakfast bar and bananas for lunch today
I wonder how heavy I am now?

Ah , the Police story
Can you guess why I had to visit the police Station on Sunday by these two piccies?







Of course you can, can't you?
Well its so obvious that I would get the car towed from outside the railway station where they was no notices about parking , everyone knows that, don't they?
I think India might have a way to go yet?

The picture with the parking sign above it cost me 10rps, car was parked by the attendant and only 500 metres away from the other picture.
We were visiting an excellent market but we all got very moist due to the heat and humidity

The picture without any parking signs cost me 830rps
600rps for the challan
200rps for the tow
30rps for the rickshaw ride
And its not claimable on expenses!

All I can say is that it was a good job the driver was there, or I would of been a bit lost as to where the car was and how to retrieve it?
As I have not mastered Hindi and the Police not mastered English it was very funny showing them my international driving licence to record on the form for the challan ( fine)
But heh dad the police know all about you now, address, age, what you had for tea and inside leg measurment. Just avoid the taylors when you visit Indian forms are very strange but you do have it in Hindi and English
Needless to say they took the money
Never mind as its all part of the adventure and "asda price or cheap as chips" as they say in Goa

Last, a little bit of meanwhile
I think this was the french embassy before they moved to more palacial rooms in the Embassy Enclave

feel free to enlarge the piccie by clicking on it , its worth it but e-mail/speak to Denis C first for the excellent french accent as he has used it in the past in Seattle. Another "lifes like that" tale to tell


Namaste

Mr Royal Challenge as no blenders left this week

Yippee its monday

Hi Blogger readers

Mr B here once again now that the visitors have gone back to join the real world, 250rps a night rooms, with running water ( hot at 0715 for 1 minute only) so they told me .
Luxury

Still they enjoyed their moist days in Delhi , albet short it was.
There is always a next time in the Gurgaon Hotel

We all managed to catch the easy recruits on thier long way to Luton
Lots of orange walking/running people on their pilgramage with
water from the ganges on thier shoulders.

Outside the closed red fort with this one , closed as its India's Birthday this week.
Independence celebrates 60 years of home rule, will Scotland ever get that far?
Mufty day in the office tomorrow so jeans and T Shirts , wild, national or just whacky for the day.


Meanwhile Ben celebrates with a decent glass of Royal Challenge
A well earned cold beer and is waiting for it to be not quite so decent, he just had to keep filling it up with more cold beer.
Ok its a man thing or can you tell by the smile??
Well Mrs P is away at the moment so its allowed



Mr B managed to have two days at
the pain giver and must be working
as another 1lb has vanished
somewhere? It's not the two and a
half pack following all the sit ups yet
but he does feel good and you can
see just how he was a wee while back.


Well at least he wont be asking "does my bum look big in this" at the wedding!





Meanwhile
Managed to catch our little chewi , he's been destroying the
kitchen door trying to get in or was it out , was very surprised
we had one on the sixth floor. He was a little upset denting the cage as it rattled around the balcony
He's got his freedom now, away from the gorras and only has to worry about the buzzards circling overhead!
That just leaves the gecko's to make friends with the cockroaches.

Its now official Mr B has become an Indian, got into Humayun's Tomb as a resident of India by showing my visa, 10 rps to get in instead of the 250 rps for the tourists. The guard just smiled
Will let you know why I decided to use the non tourist rates later , but for now all I can say is it involved a short rickshaw ride to the Police Station on a Sunday Lunchtime form a station in Delhi.
Only have to visit x more old relics to get my monies back.


Well Namaste for now

Mr Blenders

Leakage

Hi blogger readers Mr Blenders here

Well today managed ot find one tourist attraction that everyone should visit on a trip to Delhi??
An excermental visit and a really good movement had by all.
Effluential, non toxic, human waste treatment methods on display for all to see free of cost in Delhi.

As the bottom right says , it tastes like olives!!
Mr Blender is not eating olives any more!!
All schoolboy humour to be shown around a place full of

An International Museum , actually they do a fantastic job in converting many people to saving the planet and I was very impressed by their work, a very worthy visit

Its amazing what you can do with it , power lights , cooking, feeding fish and watering your veggies.
Some by natural gas , yes that' right natural!!
Some by liquid form, by treating the water and pouring it on your tomatoes, yuck!
I think I will always have two tomato plants, one for me and one for ...........
You have to leave it for 3 to 20 years ( depands on the size of the hole you dig ) and use it as fertilizer, now who wants some more potatoes with thier tomatoes ?
Unfortunately you do need to dig a few holes in the ground and wait a few years for the desired effect,

Was thinking of digging a couple of the 20 year pits and leaving my will in the bottom of one of them
I couldn't say which one , a bit like find the sixpence in the christmas pudding.


Someone ex easy poeple might know this person on the throne?
Ben is now designing one for his house in Luton.
Well if you have to go then do it in style







Mr Blender was shy and closed the door to the VIDP toilet
Very Important D? toilet , need some help as have not thought of the word yet for D but I am sure you can ? Nothing rude of course as I am very posh now and never repeat words like that


Followed this with a look around for a decent barber but got a little confused when we read the 3 signs in a market in Delhi .
Classic, but at least they tried.
Remember you can click and enlarge the piccies

Following morning
Just waiting for the guests to wake up having had a few last night in a jazz club in Gurgaon
Well, having been on the road for many months, Mr Marking and myself had to let them see the other side of India that we have to suffer from.
5 star treatment, great music , jacobs creek evaporating far too quickly in the air conditioned bar , seafood, chicken and veggies to fill our hungry bellies.
Its tough for some people and thought that they have to see just how hard it is for themselves
And as its now 1015 IST , I think they may of suffered


Namaste

Mr Blender and some easy guests

Yet another one

Hello says Mrs back in blighty now and what a busy week it was in India
Gym, shopping, eating out , more shopping and gym again followed by nails , shopping and gym and a bit more eating, dinner in the Raddison, more gym and nails , face massage , eyebrows plucked and a few more pluckings.
Just where does it stop this hectic life

Mr

left in India to earn the groats.

Leftover dinners in the tupperware boxes to make life easy.


For those that don't know Mr B, he is one of these new age travelers who is planning his journey to the islands soon to hug a barrel.
xxx gottles of Islay's finest after the angels share 2-3% he's told.
His has got the three numbers and honest, not yet into counting "days" as still on "years" to wait.
Meanwhile he is keeping a close eye via the webcam on his maturing barrel of 56% ish, non chill filtered.

Anyone goes near it and its an instant call to the distillery and the local constable to "nab the blaggers" as they would say in Delhi.

Apparently its lots of water on this one when it hits the whisky glass.
Well that will be better than the diet coke in blenders pride .
Now thats a party everyone will want an invite too, he just has to think of a decent name to decorate the bottles with.
Decent Whisky?
Mine's a half?
The long wait?
Nippie Sweetie?

Nothing much has happened to it yet apart from letting it take all the taste out of the barrel as seen on the webcams, you can check it out on yourself http://www.bruichladdich.com/

There is also another mixed case maturing that carries a bit of a health warning

Quadruple Distilled

In March 2006 the first ever Quadruple distilled single malt was made at 90% alcohol.X4 - PERILOUS WHISKY - A legendary quadruple distillation - usquebaugh-baul is the highest strength single malt spirit ever. From the oldest tasting note by Martin Martin in 1695: "…the first taste affects all the members of the body: two spoonfuls of this last liquor is a sufficient dose; and if any man should exceed this, it would presently stop his breath, and endanger his life.”.

So thats at least 2014, before the "teaspoon or a lot of water and a splash of this stuff party"
They used to call drinking sippers in the Navy , so it will be one of those parties

Where's Islay you ask, look up a map and find out yourself !
Do you want me to do all the work ?

On a last note and to make you smile
A VIP toilet here in India.





Namaste

Mr Blenders

The Big party bus , oops Wedding transport

Hello Bloggers

Need some help on this one

What vehicle to pick for my daughters wedding?

Should it be a cool looking one from I want one of those ?




Maybye a trditional one in pink, very girlie for a Scotsman to get out of though


Or a love bug in pink, can have white too










Could even have the yank tank in pink or the flying squad for the rugged look
How about this just to let your hair get blown away , maybye not as again her dad's a scotsman and gets drafty in cornwall


Could of course go and save the planet by going green , even though these are red


Or perfect low cost solution to the big day , but with the hills around she might be late
Or how about one of these , although there normally is some natural pollutants
Well , any ideas out there in cyberland as there is just so much choice to spoil her with


Oh , its not one of these if you are thinking that Liz

Namaste

Mr Blenders

Hello Bloggers

Well, well what have we here then , someone that got a little sleepy in Berlin by the looks of it , though it could be anywhere . I understand this was the first boys party in advance of the one in Cornwall . Just lucky your mates only took a photo as could of been worse.



An old but funny one on global warming
Mr Blender says it should be called
"Men, how to tell a ladies age without asking"
Mrs P is apparently only xx at the moment but he says sometimes she is at least xx.
Please check the persons pulse and other visible signs of life, if you are with someone who is 207, 107 or even ? .
Check you own if its 27



Meanwhile whats the weather like today here in Delhi, 97 degrees and 75% humidity
Cool compared to the past weeks
The rain is not as bad as middle england has suffered , but it has flooded the slum over the road, very windy and blew a few roofs away , this is why all the bricks and junk is on the roofs there to begin with.
Everyone just gets back on with life when the weather subsides.


Mrs Pimms getting ready for the trip home to finish all the last minute panic stuff for the big day Mr B has to wait a little while for that and fit a short trip to the USA to visit old friends in Seattle Picking up another shiny Boeing for spicejet this time.
But he will miss all the security checks for the Seattle to UK trip in a private jet.

Meanwhile life goes on with the friends and shopping trips for Mrs P. Out looking a jewelry , gold and diamonds and clothes and shoes , prescription , stuff , and, and, and, and .

Mr B did another rendition of the "dogs they had a party and a passionate nationalist song" the other night at a little swarrie, sorry management meeting just outside Delhi, well 1hr outside Delhi. He's now searching for whats next, any ideas ?


Namaste