sorry no update for a while, but i have been in the jungle! pretty much anyway. been staying at a place deep in the forest in the mountains in the Kodagu (inexplicably pronounced Coorg) region in the south of Karnataka. there were PLENTY of unpleasant bugs. and MASSIVE SPIDERS. i have been very brave actually, and not allowed myself to be bothered by the myriad of crawling, flying, creeping, jumping, beetles, moths, roaches, goodness knows what. even small or medium sized spiders i have ignored valiantly. luckily, Monica has dealt with all the MASSIVE SPIDERS with a minimum of fuss so no real problem. apart from that, it's not really like i'm a celebrity get me out of here, they didn't give us t-shirts with a phone number on or anything, and actually the accomodation was
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