Tuesday, February 3

Irma left from Delhi to Helsinki this morning. The flight will take approximately nine hours. Shaija will arrive and I will spend the morning acclimatising myself to flying solo.

Now the dog and I return from hunting for samosas. We had no success because we found Abhi’s Café shut. It does this from time to time but I have never worked out a pattern. Perhaps one doesn’t exist.

I notice a wall of slowly disintegrating election posters, from the recent local elections. I remind myself that these never get removed, they just slowly fade away over time.