Manjula's Mysore

15/06/2024

What a difference! Two pages from the same book.

13/06/2024

Travels in the U.K., visiting family and friends, reminded of memories with MAnjula.

03/06/2024

Manjula the caring ‘tree’ continues to give. Saris to SB , Radhika, and Kaveri’s mum and grandmother, we’re also testing out some very promising educational/awareness books for the school,

02/06/2024

https://meandmycycle.com/2024/05/14/the-family-grows/

No not (just) the car. It’s important to recognise and realise how much my adopted family here in India as helped me survive the most difficult years in my life. Sowbaghya is so critical to my life…

31/05/2024

I picked up Kaveri from school to go to the dentist. Then dropped in to visit grandmother and Radhika and a quick spell of catch and kill the nits. We’re all together again this coming weekend. Our last time before I fly to the U.K.

29/05/2024

Two young women called at the door. I feel so sorry I couldn’t help. They’ve been duped with an investment scam for Rs 40,000 how can we help people to be more aware and sceptical about such ‘too good to be true’ offers? Now Sowbaghya has arrived and tells me a cow came in the house to steal the mangos. Who can we trust?

28/05/2024

I hear you Brits blathering on about Rishi going to California after the election. Well Rishi is booked in at Mysore Bed and Breakfast this week. Maybe it’s a breather from intensive campaigning and absolutely everybody taking swipes at him.

27/05/2024

Who’d have thought it. A great community story from the disenfranchised isles. The disunited kingdom unites through the action of its people. Ok ok I’m over-egging it.

Exclusive: Bronze age remains and Roman roads among 12,802 sites discovered using latest technology

24/05/2024

I had to thank these young women, who enjoyed Manjula’s garden so she met more people today.

24/05/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/23/all-we-imagine-as-light-review-payal-kapadia

Payal Kapadia’s glorious Cannes competition selection is an absorbing story of three nurses that is full of humanity

21/05/2024

When I first got permission to create Manjula’s Memorial garden and site the benches the neighbours wanted short orderly plants. Ha ha think again

16/05/2024

https://meandmycycle.com/2024/05/16/growth-post-trauma/ check the post to find the good quote…

A person is not a potted plant of predetermined personality but a garden abloom with the consequences of chance and choice that have made them who they are, resting upon an immense seed vault of dormant potentialities. At any given moment, any seed can sprout — whether by conscious cultivation or the tectonic tilling of some great upheaval or the composting of old habits and patterns of behavior that fertilize a new way of being

I like this edition from Maria Popova… “A person is not a potted plant of predetermined personality but a garden abloom with the consequences of chance and choice that have made them who they are, …

11/05/2024

Clarkson’s Farm is fab. Tv programme on Amazon is a great mix.

In the third season, Clarkson attempts to ‘farm the unfarmed’ – a challenge many Australian farmers now face

11/04/2024

https://meandmycycle.com/2024/03/19/you-know-who-you-are/

Friends, Romans, Countrymen . Welcome No it’s not another posting about Shakespeare or Caesar —- it’s about a different inspiration —- Manjula As we approach the anniversary of Manjula’s partial de…

30/03/2024

The Bul Bul are back. Lovely birds that for a few years nested in our plants on our roofs. They’ll not be nesting as the garden has changed but good to see them back. They made Manjula so happy.

23/03/2024

http://meandmycycle.com/2024/03/23/five-years-ago/

A light wavered. It didn’t go out as she’s very much with me. Todays Pooja Today on the fifth anniversary of losing her —- physically yes —- but not in any other way. We remember Manjula A meal is …

22/03/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/tAUnWQHbxW9ACBT8/?mibextid=KsPBc6&startTimeMs=125000

16/03/2024

http://meandmycycle.com/2024/03/16/a-wonderful-woman/

In so many ways. She could beat the Brit with her fast thinking humour. This month I don’t rely just on my memory as I’m being constantly reminded by the smart phone photos of what happened five ye…

15/03/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/14/the-zone-of-interest-auschwitz-gaza-genocide sounds an important film with exceptional timing, we should stop and think. We accept too much and challenge too little.

If Jonathan Glazer’s brave Oscar acceptance speech made you uncomfortable, that was the point