Ok, this is one of those "Indian weeks"....

Bishnu is off with mr. Gill to a hospital because she was bitten by something and is now starting to have a stiff neck, and the stiffness and swollenness are moving up to her head... could be nothing, could be blood poisening. I don't want any of my personnel to drop dead on the job, so off they went.
Jubeda then came telling me that she burned a finger making chapatti's, so I put some rescue cream on the finger and a band-aid...it is like having a big kindergarten at the end of the garden, and if one of them is all, suddenly they all are.

We have had water problems in the weekend (always the weekend), as the floater in the watertank turns out to be broken, so the 2000l tank was empty...and dirty...and it took us 5 trips to the roof to find out what the problem was. Now it is sort of solved (T repaired the floater) and we can shower. A necessity, as it is already 40º C in the shade.

Our second vacuumcleaner starts to break down; to be honest, if I see the amounts of fine dust that clings to its exterior, it is no surprise it cannot handle a house of this size. And it also becomes painfully clear that we too are breathing in this fine dust...I don't even want to think about the health consequences, because that will make me want to move out of here asap.

And the airconditioning in tour bedroom is also starting to shut down in the middle of the night, for no apparant reason. You then have to get up, unplug it (which resets it, I think), plug it in again and switch it on, after which it will work again for a certain period of time. It is the only airco with this problem (and it would HAVE to be in the only room where we really DO want the airco to work), and I don't think the technical guys understand what is happening, as they keep coming up with excuses...a sensor gone crazy, cold nights (in India....haha), electricity fluctuations (and could we get up at 04.00 to check), a printboard gone astray....who knows. Maybe there is a curse on the house, caste by a crazy tenant who could not take the breaking down anymore.

In India, the question is not IF something will break down. The question is WHEN it will breakdown (the weekend, obviously). Also, once it starts breaking down, it will continue to do so. One is forced to get creative and work around the problem until it is solved...I flushed my toilets this weekend with water taken from the pool. As long as we have water there we will at least be able to wash ourselves and flush the toilets...but I must admit that trips to the Netherlands are a badly needed relief once in a while!