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With just one week until D-Day the Packing Boxes arrived today and I had high hopes. I'd taken a day off work to focus on the task of packaging my belongings strewn over three bedroom floors into tidy, labelled boxes ready to depart to Mumbai. The thing is, how much exercise is one really going to do in 10 months - realistically, and therefore how much "gym kit" is needed? Can it really be that I will do as much in Mumbai in 10 months as I did in London in 20 years? Will I s

We have had building work being carried out on the house for 2 years and the one thing that I have been most looking forward to is the conservatory / orangery we have been building at the back. It was due to be completed in October but as October rolled into November, and then December, it has became very evident that I won’t see it finished before I leave for Navi Mumbai. Everyone keeps telling me that it will be there when I get back and it’ll be something to look forward

I am flitting between excitement and trepidation, "excipidation" but it's starting to feel in a little bit more control; flip-flopping between the two is now twice-daily as opposed to hourly. It is less than a month until my first working day in India, and I have Xmas, New Year and packing to complete. I have started to make lists. Lists of things to pack for immediate use. Things to pack to be shipped for future use. Lists of things to be maintained in London whilst I am