I'm still here! I haven't disappeared down a Mumbai back alley or joined an ashram, I've just had a bunch of work to do, and been riding the rails across India.
I am in Varanasi, learning about sacred rituals, watching people wade in the Ganges to wash away their sins, and learning about a city that is four - or is it six thousand years? - old. It makes rich context for what I've been reading about Old Mate Grabaseat schooling local government on how to do their job.
Wellington! Man, what did you do to Christopher Luxon as a kid? Even on a good day he feels like giving you a beating. This time he was telling you what wasteful dipshits you were for building your fancy new convention place and this was by way of illustrating his solution to your problems which just happens to be the same one he has for every problem: Get back to basics.
