Pollards of Epping forest
On Wednesday I had to drive to Epping to pick up Kavitha and take her to her mandatory life support course and baby sit the little one while she was Continue Reading →
Author: Chitra Gopinathan
Fifth of November
‘Remember remember the fifth day of November’ and so the poem goes. Guy Fawkes and his companions plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament on November 5 1605. It Continue Reading →
Travelling with babies
Travelling with babies can be quite difficult. You need to work around their routines. When they need a nappy change, feed, change of scenery, it is all, right now. It Continue Reading →
Bikes and Lorries
Recently I’ve been getting to work late most days. It’s not a problem if I have a junior with me who usually sees the patients and fills me in by Continue Reading →
What’s the rush
Every Monday evening when I stand on the edge of my local swimming pool and am about to jump in, I get the same voice in my head saying ‘here Continue Reading →
Beyond Caravaggio – National Gallery
When you look at a painting what do you see? The overall beauty of the picture? The brush strokes? The life like capture of the event, the person? The painstaking Continue Reading →
Amsterdam and art galleries
The first time I visited an art gallery, I think, was when I went to Amsterdam during my registrar days for a conference. To improve our CV we had to Continue Reading →
School holidays
Casting my thoughts back to my school holidays, there is only one summer break that springs to mind vividly. That was the one after our final year at school. Normally Continue Reading →
Champions victory parade
The Olympic Champions victory parade took place in Manchester today. Four years ago the parade was in London. After the month or more of bringing joy to the country with Continue Reading →
Lakshmi’s visit
Tonight when I get home there will be no happy faces waiting to greet me, only the odd abandoned toy or bin full of nappies to remind me that little Continue Reading →
