1. The sunshine when I wake up makes me want to garden but before I get outside, the weather has transformed into hail and snow: it falls like snow, uniformly and softly, but when the pellets gather in the gutter and on the balcony, we can see it’s hail. Later, it manages to fall both vertically and almost horizontally at the same time.
2. A convenient parking space.
2b. We very much enjoy the panipuri – little paper thin puffs of chaat masala, tamarind sauce and pomegranate seeds, made even more flavourful and delicate when we pour on the fragrant water.
2c. My curry is a builder – each mouthful alone is nothing terribly special but a warm pepperiness builds in the back of my mouth.
2d. We laugh at how the decor makes it the “anti-Jinnah” – stark concrete and brick walls, compared to the deliberately OTT gaudiness of our more usual haunt. In the bathroom though, it strikes a better balance – clean & elegant tiling and fixtures enlivened with fun wallpaper.
3. Their sound and energy can’t help but utterly fill the small room. Everyone in there – on stage and in the crowd – is left sweaty and elated by the music.
3b. The violin player gives a shout out to his dad – we’d already guessed a familial connection for the grey haired man, in a waistcoat and tie, singing along to every lyric and dancing along like a man possessed.
3c. We take our post-gig gelato at the shop on the corner. It turns out there are now three dessert places on the strip of road between the cinema and the pub — if only they’d been there when the cinema was our local!
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