house hunting

Today, our weekly trip to the seaside had much more purpose than just sunning and relaxing. Once again, we decided to look for the perfect house.

Some time ago, after beating our heads against many unsuitable and unsatisfying walls, we decided to go for a new project and put the dreams about old Portuguese villa on the back burner. Since, at the moment, our future flat looks like this:

   ...we still need to rent for another year or two.

Of course, one option is to stay where we are, in our perfectly lovely flat. The problem is, it’s an army colony, where average age is 70+ and total number of flats occupied throughout the year is maybe 5. Loveliness aside, it is rather on a creepy side…

And suddenly we found it! Beautiful old villa with big garden full of coconut palms and some weird fruit trees, just minutes from the beach! Of course, we were not the only ones who spotted the place, so I’m trying not to get my hopes up. My new mantra is: if we don’t get the place, we won’t have to deal with number of problems like leaking roof, snakes, tiny unappealing bathroom and hassle of moving. That’s my version of positive thinking!

Apart from enjoying the beach and visiting future and potential houses, I test-driven my latest creation. I really got into the whole “making my own clothes” thing, practicing on number of skirts, shorts, pants and moving onto the dresses. For now it’s nothing fancy – very simple patterns and testing my sewing skills. I’m afraid I’ll have to go through the pain of making my body form before I commit myself to anything more complicated. Draping is just so much more practical then patternmaking. I have no patients for tile, and test fitting on myself is just a pain.

For now, I have to put all these plans out of my mind and prepare for few days in Delhi, which is a challenge in itself. For example what do I pack for 45 degrees, rainy weather keeping in mind the cultural restrictions and the number of ogling man?