I must remember what I'd decided to buy – being me, I left my Things To Get In Madurai list behind! Apparently there's a blind man who sits opposite the Taj restaurant (one of our favourites) in the evenings playing and selling flutes. I must go and see him. Also opposite the Taj is a cassette shop where I can get Indian traditional music! It's good to know these things because I'd be lost otherwise. I want to buy two new sets of clothes, a dhoti , lots of those film tapes, some notebooks, a haircut and countless other things I'll never remember.

It's mum and dad's twenty-third wedding anniversary today – I'm glad I remembered, must send them a fax later.