Into the Jungle 18 Mar
A trip into the Shivapuri National Park
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Village clinics 08 Jan
An impression of the difficulties of delivering a health service in the Middle Hills of Nepal
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Winter wanderings 11 Jan
A short trip into Nuwakot via the edge of the Shivapuri National Park
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Writing a Novel 16 Jan
Some words about the various challenges of completing a novel which turned out to be a tale of loss and recovery and camaraderie and love
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transHimalayan Adventure 05 Apr
Mum and son are setting out tomorrow on a small adventure into a mega-landscape
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Nepal Road Trip 20 Apr
Hell's Granny and obliging son head for Mustang on a couple of motorbikes
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The Open Road 01 May
Day one of our road trip left us flat-bottomed but out in the lovely sub-tropical countryside
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On air on Nepal 06 Jun
Revisiting a radio interview recorded just after the 2015 Earthquakes
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Pokhara to Baglung 04 May
Our Nepal roadtrip continues
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Standing on the shoulders... 08 May
A continuing tale of two bikes, tough riding conditions and lost nerve
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Jam and pakoras 11 May
Heading down was also scary but for different reasons
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A New Book Launching 04 Jan
a lot of fun to write ....
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Midnight emergency 28 May
A glimpse of the challenges of providing health care deep in the Himalayas
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Call-out 01 Jun
Imagine living in a village where the only way to get to hospital is by way of a bus that goes only once a day and the journey takes three rattle-and-bump hours
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A Beast of Astonishing Size 03 Jun
Even in the mountains of Nepal, there is the chance to encounter some truely awesome creatures
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Demonstrating for Health 06 Jun
World Enviroment Day was marked in the Kathmandu Valley with a citizens' march
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Beyond the Himalayan Watershed 30 Oct
A trip into Upper Mustang
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Bleeding mountains 13 Nov
Late October / early November is the holiday season in Nepal and this is the second part of a quickly dashed off account of a trip into Upper Mustang last month
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No-one is here 14 Nov
Some notes and photos from a fortnight in Mustang
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Awakening 16 Nov
Waking on a November morning in Kathmandu
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Holi 11 Mar
This year the festival of colours falls on Wednesday 20th March; here's an account of my experience of Holi in the Kathmandu Valley last year
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A Shangri La? 18 Jan
Some thoughts on a trip to Bajura in western Nepal, with apologies for being a little remiss in my posts lately.
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My life 20 Jan
A fictionalised piece about life in Kathmandu for those of low caste with no money and few opportunities
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Nothing's a given 27 Feb
On being hangry at breakfast time
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Women Travellers 01 Mar
In November, I was featured on the Bradt Travel Guides website in their celebration of women travellers. I thought I'd repost the e-interview here.
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Bring tea 16 Mar
Flash fiction is a complete story in limited word count. I've chosen 100 words or less. This piece was inspired by a tea-stop on a drive to Lamjung in the Middle Hills of Nepal and the delicious sweet spicy milky tea I slurped from a glass at the roadside
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A faded topi 16 Mar
At Kalunki, on the dusty congested main road out of Kathmandu an old man watched the world go by. I saw him from the traffic jam. This is another piece of flash fiction - a whole story in 100 words
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Food aid 18 Mar
Here's another 100-word story from a low income country
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Today's earthquake 18 Mar
There was an earthquake this morning here in the Kathmandu Valley
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Return to Rajapur 25 Mar
We went back briefly last week to 'our' island in the Karnali River in the Plains of Nepal to see what's changed
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Parenting in an idyll 01 Apr
Retur to Rajapur Island - part 2
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Not enough love 03 Apr
Why does the self-harm continue?
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Tea 05 Jun
Cambridge Writers set a challenge to compose a complete story in 250 words or less so I thought I'd post my entry
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Pony trekking in Nepal 30 Oct
Who even expected riding a horse in the Himalayas would be easy?
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Pony trekking in Nepal 2 01 Nov
This is the second part of an account of a trip into Dolpo in NW Nepal
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October in Dolpo 06 Nov
The third episode describing a trip into the last district in Nepal to have a road
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Dolpo - episode 4 07 Nov
Episode the fourth of our Dolpo trek
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Yak pastures 15 Nov
The final installement describing a two-week trip to Dolpo in October
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Kathmandu 23 Feb
The winter miasma....
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World Book Day 06 Mar
It was great to join in with World Book Day at TBS in Kathmandu
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Urban cycling 10 Mar
Is cycling in Kathmandu an extreme sport?
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Revenge of the Pangolin 24 Mar
Why isn't humankind a little... kinder?
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Dawn chorus 11 Apr
The sounds from my roof
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Phew! 14 Apr
From hazardous to simply unhealthy....
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A New Incarnation 13 Aug
I'm privileged to have had the time and space and postive frame of mind during the pandemic to record my first audiobook which launched finally in December 2020
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The Fourth Incarnation 14 Aug
The pandemic gave me the space and time to record an audiobook for the first time and this is the fourth incarnation of <em>A Glimpse of Eternal Snows</em>
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From Our Own Correspondent 21 Sep
A piece about our return to Nepal after the earthquakes
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A New Audiobook 14 Feb
How could I really have thought it would only take 22 hours!?
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Return to Nepal 05 Mar
Notes on the new complications of international travel
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Snail Mail's Cancelled 15 Mar
Some words on returning to Kathmandu during the pandemic and how things are in Nepal.
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Is Nepal Receiving the 'Best" COVID-19 Vaccine?? 28 Mar
An opinion piece published this week in Nepal's <em>Setopati</em> online newspaper
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Six Eggs 21 Apr
A true [very] short story
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Life is a Little Easier 29 Apr
I joined Simon Howarth and Purnima colleagues on a trip to review the progress of an impressive programme
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Here We Go Again 30 Apr
COVID-19 cases are rising in the subcontinent and here in Nepal we've entered another lockdown
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Building Back Better 01 May
Progress over the six years since the Nepal earthquakes
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Leaving No-one Behind 02 May
Meeting some villagers in Dhading who were struggling to rebuild their lives after the earthquakes
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Rebuilding a School 09 May
More on the work of the Purnima Programme
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Using an oximeter 10 May
Do share these notes if you are thinking of buying and using an oximter at home
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Cobbler 26 Nov
A sad glimpse of a tough life
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Admissions - a review 07 Jun
I'm busy writing a medical memoir so have been dipping into others...
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Return 29 Sep
We've done 100 days of lock-down (in two countries) and 40 days of quarantine this year alone so that's my excuse for being so quiet with my blogging....
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Wildlife and Wild Weather 18 Oct
We grabbed a week up in Manang over Dasai and enjoyed some spectacular views of the Annapurnas
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Black Mud 21 Oct
Driving Nepal's dirt roads can be challenging, especially after an especially heavy monsoon
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Heightist? 11 Nov
I'm not sure why it has taken me so long to venture into the Khumbu
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Village sounds 18 Nov
Listening in Lukla
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Urban sounds 14 Mar
Spring has arrived in the Kathmandu Valley<br />
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Writing and being techy 17 Mar
A woffle about some of the other tasks facing a writer
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Road trip 16 Apr
A final trip to round off five years in Nepal
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Ulysses redux 05 Apr
Top children's author Ian Whybrow wrote this poem, inspired by listening to the audio-version of my memoir "A Glimpse of Eternal Snows"
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