Today was a great lie-in day, it rained most of the night and morning and we ignored everyone outside clamouring to be let in. we shouldn't have done, because at twenty to one, Yesu brought our breakfast round! Apparently the HM had sent Jerry round at eight but we were asleep. We'd already eaten eggy dosai and Wheat Flakes so we weren't that desperate for more! Juliet sent some weird stuff round – a mix of orange and banana which had been thrown in a blender. It tasted horrible so that's more wasted food. I'm not very happy because I like having Wheat Flakes for breakfast¹ and boiled vegetables for lunch. It's the evening meal we want people to cook for us! And the odd lunch.

When school finished at four, Yesu and Muthu took us to the beach. We took a bus – more white-knuckle riding, then had to hire some bicycles to go four kilometres to the sea. It was fantastic cycling into nowhere while the sun began to set. C. and the others went swimming while I went searching for coral and shells. It was so quiet and peaceful, with a beautiful sunset in just the right place on the curve of the beach. The sea was very clean and it was a thoroughly enjoyable outing, so good to get away from Ramnad. When we returned, we had parcels waiting for us – music for me and food for C. It's so good to get things, back home they can't realise how good it is.