Winding up to leave Nepal, but still had time for a visit to Kumar's house!

So its been a hectic few weeks before I left Nepal - getting the new samples finished to show buyers, as well our Autumn/Winter production that wiill be available shortly! It is always a mad rush before I come back to the UK, and it is stressful to try and do things fast in Nepal for sure!

But I had promised Kumar, the sample maker at NLT Leather factory, that I would meet his family again before I left.  So on the Saturday before I left, I went to visit them at their house down near the river in Tripureshwor. Cor blimey his kids seemed to have grown up since I last saw them in December. 

Alina has just finished college and joined an adminstrative training course, hoping to get a job at the end of it, and Alish seems to have grown a couple of extra foot, but is still as shy as before! As it is the beginning of the festival season, Alina had a go at the mendhi on the palm of my hand - all the women have these beautiful designs in henna on their hands and feet - she drew a beautiful design so fast, it was impressive!

I had a random meal that Kumar had asked his wife Usha to make for me - a weird mixture of all the different food he knows i like - roti, vegetables, coconut rice pudding and yoghurt curd, washed down with some bright orange Fanta (hey, I know it is so wrong, but when you are hot and sweaty, a bit of sugary fizz is the best 'pick me up'!).  Also, Kumar still can't get his head round the fact that I don't eat meat....

I had got Alish a stunt kite thing from UK, as I had heard that last Dashain (festival in Sept/October) he was obsessed with kite flying. I was worried that maybe at 14 yrs old he had grown out of it, but Kumar said the next day at work, that his son was so excited about the kite - so I am well happy! Looking forward to see it in action when I am back in October.  For Alina, I gave her one of the bag samples me and Kumar had been working on - last time I was there, I saw that she was using one of my very old first samples that Kumar had repaired and fixed for her (it looked a sorry state!), so I wanted her to have a good sample that her father had made!

Lovely people, I am glad I went before I left Nepal!

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