Sasi annan
It is Amma’s Birthday. She follows the Malayalam calendar and so it is difficult to keep track. She normally goes to the Sree Krishna temple on her birthdays. Today we Continue Reading →
Category: Family & Friends
Back in Thiruvananthapuram
The aircraft thuds as it touches the runway and I look out the window. I’m once again back in Thiruvananthapuram. The cold snap has left me with a sore throat Continue Reading →
Beast from the east
The arctic weather is here with a vengeance. I stand corrected, it is not actually from the Arctic but from Russia, and according to the forecast it is going to Continue Reading →
Shopping with Lakshmi
Our first clothes shopping trip ‘Peppa,Peppa’, Lakshmi trills as she checks to see if I am awake. This is followed by ‘George, drum’. She mimics George’s drum rolling movement followed Continue Reading →
Lakshmi’s day out
The sun’s ray catches the water surface and the lake shimmers in the distance. I drive past it every Thursday and yet this is the first time I have noticed Continue Reading →
Hilda’s funeral
A bitterly cold day, but the sun is out. I didn’t expect anything less. It is the day we are finally saying goodbye to Hilda. A woodpecker is happily pecking Continue Reading →
January
As January says goodbye and February welcomes us, I wonder, is January the most depressing month of the year. Appearing straight after the festive month, when the party season is Continue Reading →
Once in a blue moon
As I scrape the ice off my car’s windscreen and wait for the views to clear, I check today’s temperature forecast. It was in the double figures yesterday and this Continue Reading →
Hilda, my neighbour
It was the autumn of 2002. We had just moved into our new house and the doorbell rang. It was Hilda with a bunch of flowers and a wide smile. Continue Reading →
Twelfth day of Christmas
It is the twelfth day of Christmas and the day the three wise men or Magi came to visit the infant Jesus. It is also the last day of Christmas Continue Reading →
