It is hard to keep track of Evie’s development - she is growing so quickly that new things appear on a daily basis.

She usually knows exactly what she wants and is developing a good range of strategies to get it. One of the first is a desperate ‘pleeeaase’, and if that fails, throwing something at you or unraveling the toilet roll is usually a good way to get attention to her cause. Sometimes she cannot understand how her parents can be so thick, and when English doesn’t work, switches to Nepali instead.

She loves being with people and is very interested in everything that is going on around her. These pictures show a group of boys who were playing cards near our house and were quite happy for Evie to come and watch – there is no such thing as personal space in Nepal!

She also loves animals. She knows the names or noises of most that you see wandering in a typical Nepali street and calls them out as she sees them – moo, miaow, cooka (chicken), gog, duck and ai (buffalo) are the common ones. Unfortunately goats are also plentiful. Evie knows them by their Nepali name – bakra – but doesn’t pronounce it quite right and happily shouts out “bugger, bugger” whenever they appear.