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.