We were ‘frozen’
With Kaveri, auntie, uncle and Sally
The morning after lie in, enticing her with fave fruit.
Film night and pizza
Careless treeless.
When is someone going to get a grip and do something about the wanton destruction of our wonderful trees?
We’ll regret it but by then it will be too late.
This teams job is to trim trees but were stopped removing it. The house owner needs some advice to check that the tree roots are not irreparably damaging his house beyond his driveway.
If we get it wrong people die and trees are unnecessarily destroyed.
What’s the answer?
Specialist advice?
Education of the benefits of retaining trees.
Tree protection?
Thank you MAnjula
Facebook memories.
I’m grateful we found each other, pleased we could spend wonderful time together but wish we’d had more.
Hanging out Srirangapatnam
Here to prep the cycles for a student tour in two days.
I’m now sitting on the most unusual steps by the bathing ghats, which are featured on our Srirangaptnam tour.
With various characters walking by
I was previously innocently sitting at the bottom of the tree.
A wanderer asked where I was from and then … am I a bachelor. No reward for guessing what that means. I’m married whilst pointing to manjula’s tattoo.
Useful.
I’m appreciating wonderful views, whilst trying to ignore, in both locations, the wafting aroma of the evidence of defecating in the outdoors.
The juxtaposition of India.
We had a great tour last week, Brits, birds (they’re twitchers) and not especially smelly
Getting addicted
There’s most definitely withdrawal
But it’s pleasurable
The evidence is …. In my Hanging out with Kaveri and her ‘sister’ Radikha.
I’d collected Kaveri from school to go to a Mysore Storytellers event but rain put a stop to that.
The wonderful people that provided the ice cream for this year’s event on Manjula’s Birthday in August, promoting creativity at Kaveri’s school
Then back to school
I only get 24 hours but it’s wonderful.
Tipping point (and disconnection).
I’m rereading this book.
“Transactive memory is part of what intimacy means….. it is the loss of this kind of joint memory that helps to make divorce so painful. .. They once were able to discuss their experiences to reach a shared understanding…. The loss of transactive memory feels like losing a part of one’s own mind.” Page 189
I can vouch for that and more, having ‘lost’ the two women Liz and MAnjula—Manjula and Liz, that were so critically important to me in my life.
There’s much in this book to recommend it.
Now in Manjula’s library
Guests become friends
We would often say how lucky we are to have found each other and shared our home with a constant stream of new friends arriving at our door.
We had visitors yesterday.
A lovely family who first came to stay with us ten years ago with their young daughters.
What a lovely surprise.
B C Shetty and Mamatha
Dhrithi and Diya
Dhrithi and Diya have now grown to be strong clever young women, a real credit to their parents and themselves. At ages 15 and 17 they’ve been home schooled.
Fantastic and a great example how the women in India are seriously getting their act together.
Wonderful positive shared memories of MAnjula and our friends
The family are from Karkala and work full time for their NGO Kadike Trust and promote udupisaree
In August 2013
Two more Godfather cards were given out.
The young and young at heart
Supported by Manjula’s Mysore.
It’s all part of being kind, following in her footsteps
Butchers 2
Another tree bites the dust without any heavy rain or wind but it’s the one next to it they were proposing to cut down
Here’s evidence, if we needed it:
1 the current team failed to spot which tree would fall next, their approach is random
2 in any case, it’s difficult to predict which trees will fall but it’s impossible without some expertise
3 we need some expert knowledge, supervision and accountability to target which trees are fundamentally weak and stop the unnecessary felling of trees
I have no idea where the railing is there. It’s not managed.
Me and MYCycle 