Big Jimmy

Here we are enjoying Glasgow and the weather is very fine. Ruby and I had a day out at the Falkirk wheel with two friends George, Preya and baby Lesa. This is a wheel that lifts two boats canal boats up the 35m difference between two canals the Forth & Clyde and Union by lifting two boats quickly and simply as possible. The Millennium Link as it is called was an ambitious £84.5m project with the objective of restoring navigability across Scotland on the historic Forth & Clyde Canal and the Union Canals, providing a corridor of regenerative activity through central Scotland. One major challenge in this objective was the fact that the Forth and Clyde Canal lay 35m (115ft) below the level of the Union Canal. Historically, the two canals had been joined at Falkirk ... read more

Hi Everyone Ruby and I went to Munnar for the weekend, we were driven there by our friend auto driver Jose but not in his auto. He has a friend who has a Omni (Suski 7 seater) When we got to Munnar I wanted to stay in the Eastend Hotel a super deluxe hotel our auto driver said "it is too expensive! I said I will be the judge of the expense as Indian and westerners have different idea of what is expensive and as this was Ruby's first experience of staying in a hotel I wanted it to be a good experience. So Ruby and I booked in to the Galaxy room is was a big room with seating for six people and one small double bed, When Ruby and I went to bed and ... read more

25th June 2007 Eighteen days after the wedding and the excitement is all over and I now have a dutiful wife who even puts toothpaste on my toothbrush for me, is a good cook her aim in life is to look after me these Kerala girls sure know how to look after the husband Ruby is no different from other Kerala girls at times she embarrass me with the attention I get. I hope she never joins the women’s liberation movement! I have traveled all over Kerala meeting Ruby’s relations including a four hour overcrowded train journey to a brother in law who's house that was a quarter mile from the road and as this is now the rainy season the ground was knee deep in flood water. On the train back I met a ... read more