Tuesday

Tuesday is the best day of the week in this part of Kathmandu. The reason for this is that during the dry season we endure 40 hours of scheduled power cuts (load shedding) per week but on Tuesdays we are given some relief with electricity all day. The simple pleasures that one takes for granted elsewhere can really be enjoyed on a Tuesday - including watching television, feeble as the available channels may be. As the monsoon season approaches next month there is the prospect of the reservoirs being replenished and the annual lifting of the restrictions. This may even come a little sooner than normal as we have been having a great deal of unseasonal rain over the past week or two. Habula, our elderly domestic security guard, attributes this latest reflection of climate change to the Nepali people having been "bad". I expect he's probably right.