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What the heck is this? Never seen it before? This is a state-of-the-art washing rock. It has running water and everything. You get your bucket of soapy water, complete with Tide (for bucket-wash), another bucket for rinsing, a hose, this rock and there you are. We saw this washing-rock behind the SAP guest house, one […]

Shoot! I was running up the stairs and slammed my foot into the riser. Hurt like mad too. Lakshmi is always saying “Slowly Madam”, well Madam is definitely slow now! I had this little foot incident mid-morning on Tuesday. I really thought I had just stubbed it hard. I hobbled to the couch; Lakshmi put […]

Every week, Sanjeeve, the Flower Wallah (man) comes to arrange the flowers. He drives up on his two-wheeler with a big bag of all kinds of different flowers. He has a flower farm not to far from our place and a florist shop right near the gate into our community. When he comes, Lakshimi and […]