I should be sleeping since im a bit i’ll. I eat a plate of noodles last night that didn’t really settle well on the stomach. However yesterday was too interesting to allow to slide by. I got up at 5.45 and did yoga and exercise till 7. Then me and Jamie weeded the vegetable patch and dug in a new one, after feeding the cow and calf. After a delicious breakfast with Anmol and the boys we finished up the digging and washed ourselves up. All seven of us crammed into a car the size of a ford fiat and we drove down to Old Manali. Walking along the river we came to Anmol’s friend’s house, Nilmilna or something of the sort, and her husband Tage. There were about 15 people there from all over the world. German and Canadian, Israeli and English, Japanese and Hindi. Tage used to be a rock band in the 60’s and was still a dab hand at the guitar. We spent three hours or so singing and playing as a group, and generally enjoying the crack with much laughter. Afterwards we all munched down on a delicious lunch, every person haven brought a different dish. It was raining hard but i wanted to get a little bit of shopping done, so i took my shirt of and put it in my bag and sprinted back at full tilt along the river bank in the middle of the thunder storm. Grabbing a hot shower at my friends place we headed into town. I bought a few pleasant curiousies and we had a casual wander round. I’d drank to much tea with our late lunch and discretely answering a call of nature I was mildly amused to see that just on the side of the road, the spot i had chosen to grace was home to a causal scattering of Hemp which grows wild, and to a large degree, in all of the valleys in and around Manali.  and then we walked back up the hill to the farm i’m staying at. It was quite late by this point and it took me and Jamie over an hour to make the walk. However it had stopped raining and the stars merged with the lights of Manali to present a wonderful collaboration of natural and man-made viewed from this ancient forest with trees stretching hundreds of feet into the sky.

                We made it back safe. I’d bought myself a magic trick and showing of inspired the boys to respond by showing me some very impressive card tricks. After this we moved onto palm reading, where our house magician made a good show of reading our palms and declaring our future. Apparently I’ll achieve a life desire within the next 11 months, a university conflict will soon resolve itself, I’ll have one child, a boy, the mother of whom i’ll meet in about 2 years time. And by then I’ll have settled down, or so my palms seem to indicate. This gives me another 18 months to travel around the world before my destiny manifests itself and shows me what I want to do with life. My son will be born within two and half and three and half years. So there we go- my man had asked me to record the dates within the diary or journal and to remember to invite him to the wedding. Hence. Now i’v gotta go complete my shopping. It was a very, very fun day.

To the moon and back. XxX