We are still in Buddha Gaya – I have been reluctant to go until we have completed a few important projects.

It is now very hot and almost impossible to do anything in the mid day – thinking becomes exhausting and even reading seems an effort. The computer gets so hot it starts to malfunction. The earth burns ones feet and the air is hot and dry.

But by some miracle we have managed to do quite a lot of work around Nissoka’s huts; piling up a lot of rubble dirt and sand to create a bigger rainy-season island for the huts, and erecting a reed roofed veranda and a reed wall to give privacy to the back garden. We also cleaned up after the builders who made quite a mess of the place. They put down new concrete floors and replaced the badly made straw roofs with red concrete tiles. Nissoka’s corner of the land is starting to come together. It looks quite nice and is becoming much more livable. Despite the heat everything is fresh green.

We are still here at the Secret Jewel in Buddha Gaya, Manish Krishna and I. In a couple of days we are finally off to beloved Katmandu.

I've been here three months - since the end of the big Glasgow pilgrimage, first resting up then attacking a mountain of work. The fun part has been building new Pilgrimage websites and learning more about web-construction. It was cold when we arrived in Jan but now it is HOT. Lucky me - I can drink the water

We have also done a lot of work around the huts - they are becoming nice place to stay, slowly slowly.

I've got another big year ahead - including the Conventions of the Western Buddhist Order in Norfolk UK, visiting Bhante and returning to NZ for a month.

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