Manjula’s Library

September 18, 2022September 18, 2022 SFLeave a comment

Somewhere to stop, read, reflect and remember.

The opportunities are not only in the library itself, but every space in and around our house offers a place for quiet reflection or when it’s not so quiet, meeting old and making new friends.

Join our family, including the birds attracted to the greenery bursting from our house, our pets… Lucie, billet-doux and

…. our garden.

Originally in pots on our roof, it’s now shifted to the park opposite with granite benches or hammocks available from the house.

Please come and enjoy.

Have we got it right? As in this article on how to nurture a personal library, “according to Cicero, if you have a library and a garden, you have everything you need.”

Manjula’s Mysore

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In Memory of Manjula, Satish and Tanuja have launched our new business.

It’s same but different….

…as it will continue to provide services to help people visiting Mysore, have a great time, through Mysore Bed and Breakfast and MyCycle Tours.

We’ll also commemorate Manjula through her gifts and now with the added extra of working with young people, to help them grow, develop and thrive..

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Most recently we celebrated Manjula’s birth anniversary with an eventful day for visually impaired young women. Here’s our press release

We’ve helped with a young man’s education and plan to do more of that next year by supporting a young girl

We’ve also:

sponsored meals at an ashram for older people

sited benches in two parks in Mysore

created a garden in the park opposite our house, we’ve always had a garden at the house but this is something else

taken our team on holiday to the beach in Kerala

provided almost 50 cycles as gifts to individuals and organisations

Satish helping out at our eventful day for forty visually impaired young women.

Manjula’s Mysore was our domain on the internet but we’ve now gone one step further and named the new company after the woman who made it all possible.

Manjula’s Mysore will continue to do good, reflecting Manjula’s kindness, through partnerships of NGOs, business and with our team of community volunteers.

They’re at it again

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Satish project director with his team, planning or trying to make sense of the firangi’s bizarre ideas

The wonderful team at Mysore City Corporation

Have kindly agreed to the extension of Manjula’s Garden in the park opposite our house.

Here’s the video I provided to make the case

One of Manjula’s benches in the background.

Manjula gives again.

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New roses arrival, some gifted by Manjula, for the sadly depleted garden.

While Manjula’s garden and benches hang out in the next door park.

So that’s why the corporation often don’t place their benches in the shade? 🤭I don’t think it was a Manjula gift or maybe it was….

Remembering Manjula.

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It’s all go..

We use any and every opportunity to recognise and remember, what would have been Manjula’s 48th Birthday is extra special.

On monday afternoon, 23rd August (postponed from Saturday due to a curfew) we have open-house for friends to drop-in for a drink and cake or sweets, to visit the garden we’ve just planted, see Manjula’s two painted portraits and have a chat.

We’ve now got two paintings by Cinderella, more here and here

Karan a student at CAVA Art College is creating something to entertain.

by kindly sponsoring the meals for the elderly people living in the Ashram (not the children’s home!)

Tanuja, one of the MyCycle Directors, helping plan the garden with a little shopping trip

It’ll look better in a couple of years 😉

Satish, MyCycle Director, nearly working.

earlier photo (we’ve had no international guests for over a year) of one of the three benches in the park,

As we reach the end of the day on her birthday it’s been raining for hours. So an earlier photo.

Yet another day in the park

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Creating a garden for MAnjula

There’s been two sorts of reactions to the garden which might provide some insights into people’s view of life, more later.

Lucie just did her own thing, happy not to be all alone with me.

Another day in the park

August 9, 2021 SF5 Comments

Englishman and auto rickshaw drivers?

A day in the park

August 3, 2021 SF2 Comments

Preparing the ground for a project in the park opposite our house at Mysore Bed and Breakfast.

Satish MyCycle Director and project manager recruited the team and supervised the work without getting his hands dirty.

Even the monkeys were entertained but not by my stories.

Planting next week with the advice of Tanuja and the gardeners.

It’s all for you know who…

Bursting

March 24, 2021 SF3 Comments

We’re bursting at the seams. Wherever you turn there’s evidence.

We now have plants in the drive out the front, inside and outside the gate, down both sides of the house, in the back yard and on the mid level roof. There’s hundreds of them. We plan to create a small garden in the park this year so that will use half the plants. Let’s hope the mosquitoes will go with them.

Most Indian houses have little if any art. It’s an unnecessary (not) expense and very middle class. As I arrived with the latest offering MAnjula would complain that there was too much art and not room for anymore. Wrong!

Our latest addition