It was my birthday a week after we got home. It started raining. It was lovely.

Nim and Thu came to stay. We watched The Crown on Netflix and ate ice cream in the daytime. We had dinner at the pub and came home for champagne and birthday cake.

Cat and Will and Thiango and Cosmo were away camping so we had another party when they came home to celebrate Christmas and New Year and my birthday.

We had dal bati like we had had a year ago at Jagran in Rajasthan. Rupert and Juliana collected the cow poo we needed to cook the bati.

Cat made a beautiful and delicious cheesecake and Thiango took most of these photos. It rained a lot and we were happy for it. Varsha and Thiango got really wet at the end of the night.