5th Jul 2008 Trek to Chanderi with Ashok, Kripa and her colleagues. Brilliant monsoon trek. From Pune, Ashok and I got there by train, 5:45 am – Vangni station finds Ashok trying to nap while we start our long wait for the Bombay-ites to join us. The others are delayed. We agreed to start on…
Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse Book on Amazon | My review on Amazon 5 out of 5 stars Reviewed May 21, 2008 I picked up this book in a book store in Alaska, well before I had children of my own. Then it was for the sheer pleasure of looking at…
Do I know you? I seem to know how your thoughts flow, how your eyes look for mine among a bunch of others. Making that connection with you seems so natural. It seems impossible that you feel the same way too… and yet equally impossible that you don’t. I am lost in your smile, in…
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Book on Amazon | My review on Amazon 5 out of 5 stars Reviewed May 20, 2008 I got it as a birthday gift. In recent times with two children, it had been almost impossible for me to read anything serious, but I ended up reading this…
Pillow Talk by Freya North My review on Amazon | Book on Amazon 2 out of 5 stars Reviewed Apr 28, 2008 The plot is fairly common: boy and girl meet in a school rock concert and fall in love, and somehow, don’t stay in touch. Then by chance, meet again 17 years later in…
1st Jan 2008 I wake up early on new year’s day for a change. My father would be proud of me. Madhavan in a rash moment had promised to come with the kids and me for a ramble on some hills this morning. It takes some reminding, but he does come with us, muttering to…
Made some progress this morning – woke up another 15 mins earlier, but still the vultures are way ahead of me. The various colored and flavored darjeeling teas are being put to good use. We spend a lot of the morning playing badminton on an uneven grass surface. The only significant event is Akash is…
The night is incident free – Akash has gotten more used to the toad, and we’ve moved Aditi to milk powder – Rohit figured the change in milk consistency is the cause of her puke problems. It does work, and as I said, the night is incident free. I try and I try and manage…
The next morning I wake up late in spite of going to bed relatively early. Gotto do something about this constant feeling of not enough sleep. Waking up at 7:30 am is late by Thekambattu standards. My late morning excuses are strong though – Akash, being afraid of a toad in the bathroom, decides to…
A family holiday after ages… and for Rohit, a reunion with Sunder and Sonati after several ages. We set out early from my brother’s place in B’lore to catch the Intercity train that is to take us to Salem. Having added several buffers of time (extra for each additional kid and each additional piece of…
