Water for all?

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India 16th May
Yesterday I sat around the pool, soooo hot, the pool boy bought me a cold cloth, a face spritz and a bottle of cold water every now and then. The pool has resident crows that love to bathe in the flowing waterfall by the pool side and in the whirl pool, they seem to love it, keeps them fresh and cool as they fly around afterwards like small children running through a hose pipe, I remember my mum doing that with us in the height of summer when we were little. Fun times. As I watched the crows and smaller birds one flew over my sun longer and pooped on my towel, thankfully on my towel and not me and the pool boy laughed such a lot and changed it for me, his enthusiastic laugh was making me laugh even more, so funny. As the wet crows flew overhead the water drips off their wings, I kept wondering why and how I was getting wet at first lol. All settled I kept hearing a screaming like noise and looking up I saw something that was both amazing and disturbing, a scream like noise followed by a large bird diving down from great heights to catch another bird in flight, it tossed it around in the air before flying off with it, I assume some sort of hawk, if anyone knows what this would be I'd love to know. I hear this sound a lot around the hotel. The crows bathe in the pool & fountain area, I wonder, how can it be that these crows actually have access to more water than the majority in India? It is so hot I can only just dip in and out of the sun, two dragonflies appear to be playing over the pool ( could be mating but I like to think playing as they look far to beautiful and delegate for such things lol ) we also have a resident cat, scruffy white and beige thing, it hid under my chair stalking the birds which it never catches, I made a hissing noise at it and it banged it's head under my chair, ran off and just looked t me as if to ask where did you come from lol , it was actually quite funny, it looked like it had such a frown on its face. Having had a very relaxing day by the pool & booked into the hotel spa for a massage it made me think, I'm surrounded by all this flowing cool water, I am handed free bottles of. Old water by the pool boy, fresh col fruit and a spritz and only yesterday a little boy in the street near to the Gateway of India wasn't asking us for money or anything material, he just kept asking for our bottles of water that is all he wanted, bottles of water that cost me 20p for a litre!! Really made me think. Especially as I'm about to sit down to a Thai curry & steamed rice. I wonder how many bottles of water the street stall stocks & if I can fit it all into the boot of our drivers car. There are protests and security warnings today so I am unable to explore the areas I wanted to, so re planning my trip. We're off to get some suits made for Chris later in the week, they are amazing, handmade and really good quality. We've dinner with locals which i'm really looking forward to. All this just sitting around the pool, India is full of adventures, I'm off out with my guide now to explore more of the real Mumbai

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