Saturday, October 8, 2011

DAY 70 (Wednesday 28 September 2011)

Happy DASHAIN.  DASHAIN otherwise known as BIJAYA DASHAMI is the biggest festival of the year, this is where the goddess DURGA in all her manifestations are worshiped with innumerable PUJAS, abundant offerings and thousands of animal sacrifices for the ritual holy bathing, thus drenching the goddess for days in blood.

The Goddess Durga

There will be some animal sacrifices here as I believe that only British Gurkhas Nepal is the only military place where Gurkhas are based that are allowed to do the official sacrifice which is a KASHI (goat) but I shall not be in attendance.

We had a LEC (Locally Employed Civilian) lunch today, it’s where we get all our LECs together who work for us and thank them with drink and food for all the hard work that they have done, to be honest without them, a lot of things wouldn’t get done.  It was a good afternoon, they got the afternoon off whilst the majority of us returned to work, albeit a very short period for some.

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