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White and yellow in glorious juxtaposition on the roof garden, and on the balcony, a perfect lotus in the little pond

Our first stop on the Palace of Wheels on facebook.com/profile.php?id… today, Jaipur with its splendid monuments

John Galsworthy, whom I much admired in childhood, and find I do still, on facebook.com/profile.php?id… today

How Ranil Wickremesinghe survived the challenge to his long lethargy after being elevated to the UNP leadership on facebook.com/CLDSL/ today, when Anura Bandaranaike told him of a seeming plot to dethrone him on the part of Karu Jayasuriya and Gamini Athukorale

I think he ouest what the children do not want to ranil

An interesting novel, Prophet Song, but not quite I felt in the league of another novel about dictatorship by another Irish writer, The Story of the Night

The first theatre group I toured in Sri Lanka for the British Council on facebook.com/profile.php?id… today, the Watermill, with a lovely home, depicted here

facebook.com/CLDSL/ looks today at yet another member of the lost generation of the UNP, A C S Hameed, who lasted however longer than most, only to be sidelined by Ranil late in his career

Back to John Verney today on facebook.com/profile.php?id…, whose Callendar family books I relished last year

A picture of Eve Garnett as a child suggests the inspiration for the heroine of her tales of children from a very different social class to her own

The puppies on centre stage today on facebook.com/profile.php?id…

The gourami that survived, the tilapia that didn't, on facebook.com/profile.php?id… today

Sunset on the ferry from Ajaccio to Porto Torres, a great sight which made up for the disappointment of a long delayed departure

The author of today's book also served in the SAS, and first published an account of his escape to the Syrian border when an operation in Iraq went wrong

More about Jaipur from the Palace on Wheels today on facebook.com/profile.php?id…, an elephant ride and the glorious Amber Palace up on a hill

The second volume of Godfrey Gunatilleke's monumental autobiography on facebook.com/profile.php?id… today

Bribery taking Ranil to the top on facebook.com/CLDSL/ today, when he asked for millions from business for the purpose, a story told by Nahil Wijesuriya in his autobiography too