By way of an introduction

Let me begin with a few words about the two of us. I'm Motts; Mark is two years and four months younger than I am and really quite immature. I love him to death but he's a younger brother and younger brothers can be irritating in the extreme.

While I'll quite happily sit in front of the TV watching one of my DVDs, he just lies on his back staring into space or concentrating hard on some ridiculous plastic object or the other. Those moments never last long though because no sooner has he started concentrating than he's dropped the thing and then somebody has to go across, pick it up, give it back; you know the routine. I do my best to help him but it's annoying and he never seems to learn. Maybe once he's started crawling properly he'll become a little more independent and then retrieve these things for himself. At the moment though, it's a pain because there's always someone or other ducking in front of the screen and picking up this blue plastic cog or that red plastic beaker. I mean, I know I've seen Finding Nemo probably a trillion times already but it's very difficult to concentrate with all these constant interruptions.

We live in India and we were born in India. Mum's Indian and dad's English - "a British" - mum would say. I know it's not grammatically correct but I know what she means and if I stay in this country long enough to have Wren and Martin thrust down my throat, I'll come home from school one day and tell her exactly why it's wrong and what the correct term should be. (Mum, it's not Britisher either). Funny that Wren and Martin's grammar books (which were first published back in the 1930s) should still be so widely used in India. Funnier still that despite the country's reliance on these, the Englsih language is consistently beaten and abused by the majority of the population. But hey, what am I saying? Here's me, Indian Nemo-addict, with only the most rudimentary education under my belt (one that consists at the moment of dib-and-dab - that's a form of painting, for the uninitiated - and endless repetition of rhymes and dances) sounding off about English grammar.

Anyway, that's enough about the two of us for now. I can hear mum coming so I'll continue this at a later date. My intention is to give an update every day but with no internet connection in our home currently, weekends are going to be a problem.

Bye for now.