Malme is allergic to pork. We discovered this yesterday when she ate a pork sausage and her skin erupted. She'd told us she was allergic to beef, but it turns out that she is allergic to meat from any hoofed animal. So that means no goat or lamb either, and I suppose that camel, unicorn and centaur are also off the menu. It sounds a little unbelievable, but Shilpi didn't think that Malme would have ever seen a pork sausage before, hence her inadvertent blundering into cloven-food territory. She'd recovered by the afternoon and we went out and bought a clothes stand for the two girls and then left them at home with Niharika while we had a coffee nearby.
The weather's been muggy and overcast for the last few days and after a light shower on Friday night, the heavens opened yesterday in a way that the heavens only open in India. Even though the car was only ten yards from the coffee shop we would have been soaked before we'd ventured half that distance. So we kicked our heels where we were and after half an hour or so, when it had eased a bit, the security guard escorted Shilpi and Mark to the vehicle under another customer's umbrella. The rain thundered down for most of the evening and this morning Bangalore is sodden - a taste of things to come when the monsoons set in a couple of months from now.
Originally published on Blogger on 16th March 2008.
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