Stargazer4moon's blog: "It depends on what occurs on the way."

Funny old day today. It started well then went down hill but the good news is that there is still vino tinto in the fridge, some food and the dehumidifier is working like a dream. I just boiled the kettle to make a cup of Green tea with Slim Tea and instead of having a misted mirror, which sits right hebind the kettle and covers one third of the wall, it is pristine apart from the finger prints put on yesterday trying to prove to the room boy that the wall was cold for an internal wall. You expect internal dew in England as Autumn has arrived but not in the torpics where rooms should be hot and damp just like it is outside. The room boy, who is a very sweet and hard working boy, gathered that we don't like air conditioning running all day and night so he brought along a dehumidifier yesterday and set it up. I got up in the night to empty it and it has been emptied four times since. At least we can be assured of having dry washing and towels because there is no warmth in the room or air flow to dry anything or wasn't until the clean and drying machine arrived. It is obviously brand new and maybe Sri Lanka has decided that they are better for the planet and pocket to run than air con. At least they are on wheels and move around well. I keep losing internet but am connected to a wi-fi service which must have been installed for the professional visitors to the hotel. Ah internet back again and it makes you wonder how everyone coped before it was invented. That is by the by. The Bulbul bird is obviously nesting in the trees at the back of the room and is currently making a din, probably because someone is out there. The sun has broken through the clouds again but it looks quite unsettled out there still. I am not worried about the weather, we have had a fair amount of sun since arriving and a fair amount of rain but it is warm, we are being fed, the rooms are clean and the people are all friendly except of course for certain tourists who have a leaning towards being rude and ignorant. I was going to go down to the pool after having the morning ablutions but could not find the cossie and then when I went to lock the safe it came up with an error so I can do nothing with it because the Man who now has a limp did not give me error clearing instructions. It is not that I think the boys would steal but there is no point putting temptation in anyone's way. However, that is academic but the cossie turned up, it was hanging on the line in the shower room, which is a dark little part of the bathroom. As there is nobody to put sun oil on my back I have given up on the idea of a swim so that can wait until the afternoon when the sun has lost its intensity. Here in Sri Lanka the sun starts to burn the skin quite early on in the day so that is probably due to its position on the planet rather than climate change, Midday and just after are the hot times in England, where the sun has shone quite a lot this summer and we were in danger of having a hosepipe ban but luckily it rained off and on enough to give plants a drink and avoid constant daily manual watering. Well, the sun has gone again and if the Man who now has a limp is not asleep then he will no doubt be feeling hungry enough to come back to the room for lunch. Ah, the sun is winking today as he has just opened his eyes again and reflecting nicely off the pool water into the room. There is nothing nicer than drinking tea in Sri Lanka and of course India as it is so fresh and as you have to use bottled water it is alway clean tasting. It is not so easy doing a coherent blog on here as there is not line feed so it just rambles into a long running scree of scrambled thoughts. Ah, it is 1pm, the man with the limp has returned and so it is time to close this short but scattered leaf turning.