Giving you away like motel matches

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By the marmite like Elvis Costello, i.e. you either you love him or hate him. I'm in the former category as if you couldn't tell (hate marmite by the way).

If an award was to be given out for the most uneventful day then I would have won it hands down. Spent the day at work (but working from home) and the evening relaxing at home (which is my place of work), so not a lot of change of scenery really.

Highlight of my evening was watching the tv program on the Hindu Maha Kumbh Mela, where literally millions of people gather to take a dip in the Ganges river. Stand out moments for me were:

~ The well heeled lady from the UK who went all the way to India to join in but backed out at the last minute because she couldn't bring herself to get in the river. Now I don't blame her personally given how much raw sewage enters the river on a daily basis, but this was not exactly a demonstration of faith

~ The Sudus, a strange group of men who seem to spend most of their time naked, their bodies painted grey/white with ash. Their trick seems to be self abuse as a means of demonstrating their faith. One chap took his little chap, rolled it around a stick, passed the stick between his legs so that he could hold it behind his back and then proceeded to do squats; his little chap being stretched beyond the limits every time he did so. Ouch.

Come back quick Diana before I resort to such self abuse simply to pass the time