A day in the life

Seeing as my posts are now apparently becoming ‘too cynical’ again, I’ve decided to post something that I’ve seen done by others- a montage of photos from a typical day in my life. Of course I have chosen the most romantic of my current work to do this- well, I guess if you call building a road on a rural Indian property romantic.

Nevertheless, here it is. Most of these photos don’t need comments, but as you know I can’t often resist making them.

Couple of strays on the walk to work

Another stray out for a walk after an early-morning ‘tonic’

Flattening the land before sowing. This involves the family standing on a heavy length of wood.

The infamous (in these parts) ‘Indian fence’: dead branches of spiny trees to keep out livestock.

The road leading into our new property before work begun.

The road being worked on. Work mainly involves rock picking and raking the rocks to make the road as level as possible. It sounds bad (‘rock picking’ = chain gang) but it’s not that bad really.

Watering the sand to enable tractors to drive on it.

A delivery of gravel for making cement.

These will be an everyday occurrence once we have the new office building complete.