GANESH & CAT

They never spent Christmas in London, the winter was too cold and dark and endless. They travelled to be by the sea. Alan worked on the coast, in Bexhill but he never had the time to enjoy the sea of Bexhill-on-Sea. So in the middle of a cold English December they flew to India. They rented a room in a beach-side cabin between Kannur and Thalassery taking morning swims in the warm water. Immediately they arrived Cat told Alan she thought she’d been to India before – she felt so peculiarly at home. Alan, the empiricist to Cat, the spiritualist, looked at her sceptically but affectionately. In 2013 Cat returned to Kerala. She drove to a local government building, each room had been given over to a local artisan. This is where she bought her Ganesh. In London it reminds her of her home from home, of warmth and of her 28 years with Alan, who died in 2011.

28 Jul 2013