Hey Big Spender(s)

Kopila and I are just back in town after a few heady days in Kathmandu spending soooooo much money. By our standards!  We had three goals:1. purchase a lot of silver findings from Abdul and Shokira at Fozia to cope with our steadily growing orders for completed jewellery;2. search every inch of the Bead Bajar in Indra Chowk for the elusive turquoise pote bead; and3. look at big ovens (the ladies had no idea such a thing existed. Totally blown away!)Neither of us are huge fans of KTM so the plan was to shop fast and go. And we did. We spent more money in two and half days than in a long time.  But we got the silver, found the beads (despite nearly every sahuji in the market remorse facedly telling us Paundaina- not available) cleaned the cupboard sized shop of the aforementioned turquoise beads and...no....we didn't look at ovens.  Well, we didn't just look at ovens. WE BOUGHT ONE!!!!We had the cash, we had the promise of free delivery, and we didn't know when we'd both be back together in KTM (it's a long way for both of us!).  Also, our darling ladies are heartily sick of the noisy generator and we are very keen to do what we can to become as environmentally clean as we can!  It was scary, step of courage and we are very relieved that it arrived, seemingly intact last night. (With more pasta machines, thank you Jacquie and John!) Today is calibration day. Keep your fingers crossed!!!I will also be blogging here for a more personal account of the time here if too much is not enough.