Our hosts for the last couple of days have been George and Ginny Bastian.
They live just off Prince Street in the port city of Cochin on the coast in Kerala in South West India.
There is a pothole at the end of the road that George has been asking the city corporation to fix for months but they still haven’t got round to it.
They are going to Mass tonight at the Catholic Church down the road. Their son loves Chelsea and watches all the matches and is in year eight at the local school. As we arrive back, he has just returned from football practice and he dumps his dirty kit by the washing machine, expecting his mum to sort it out for him.
He wants to go to university to study engineering. His cousin is at Leeds and he thinks he might go there as well as he hears the social life is good. He is texting on his mobile phone.
They have a lovely five bedroom house. Ginny does a mean scrambled egg for breakfast and George is partial to a brandy before bed time. Their internet router is causing them some problems but their seven year old usually sorts it out.
George works at the airport as a customs officer. He says people are always trying to bring prohibited items into the country when they come back from their holidays abroad. His dad died last year and tomorrow they say Mass for his soul on the anniversary.
George and Ginny decided to take in paying guests to raise a little extra money, in 2009. Since then, the guestbook has accumulated 39 pages of visitors and he is pleased with the way that things are going. He admits that it was a big decision as he had to pay for an extension to the house and since then lots of other people in the neighbourhood have started doing the same thing.
George and Ginny are both in their late forties. Ginny is very pretty and could be much younger. She has a lovely smile and beautiful eyes. George is a little over weight and Ginny has put him on a diet. Tonight her parents are coming over for dinner as it is her father’s birthday. He is 78. She is cooking a beef casserole in the pressure cooker and they are having prawns to start and vanilla ice cream for dessert.
It could be Pinner.
Apart from the noisy frogs and monsoon rains, not to mention the sacks of tea and spices that overflow from every doorway.
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