30 in 2005

What is with this d*rn weather? When I first came to England I could not fathom why the British continuously talked about the weather and dr...

So the birthday was spent mainly in quiet contemplation. Really it was nothing more than the exhaustion and loneliness of a house used to ha...

Somewhere in the world it's already my birthday. I suspect that at 7.30 London time my parents and Nik will call to wish me and sing lou...

If you say the words ‘Julie Andrews’ to anyone in V’s family you will get instant breaking into song, undoubtedly one from either Mary Popp...

Went and tortured ourselves with the Deol family show ‘Apne’ over the weekend. What can I say, I am a sucker for cheap tickets and they were...

Some evenings are so delicious that they need to be cut into slices wrapped in fine French linen and stored in a hat box, to take out and sa...

Here is why. After 5 years of living in London my parents and brother finally made the trip over from Delhi to see us. My mum had been befor...

This picture is one of my favourites from the entire trip. A lone person sitting on a beach side wall, caught on camera as we stopped to ad...

Rockley Beach Centre of Bridgetown Random dockside cafe Speeding across the ocean

I have posted 5 sets of photographs and when I checked them online last night they looked fine. This morning it would seem that 2 sets have ...

Watch out for creatures from under the sea..... ...and wrecks..... ....and fish on their way to school

Precise Colourful Neat Endearing

The players The over-enthusiastic Indian fans - at the wrong match! Big screen head Garfield Sobers Pavillion @ Kensington Oval, Bridget...

Sated on mounds of good New York food and music we flew into the sun-lined sky towards our beach holiday. There is something about beach ho...

The view that soothed our cricket-hurt hearts and made us forget about the real world. Nice eh?!

As with all breaks and holidays food was focal point this time as well. Whom am I kidding? It’s the focal point of my very existence. 2&...

When I first went to the US of A in 1998 I was a relative newbie to the business of travelling alone and a definte newbie to the country. A...

This was not meant to be my first New York post. The pictures and bit I wanted to post first are sitting as a draft on the dashboard but whe...

I have several posts to post, all words in a cloud. All neatly written out on wide-margined foolscap paper with a blue-black ink pen, and la...

The suitcase needs unpacking. The sunburn needs calamine lotion. The pictures need uploading. The house needs vaccuming. The plants need wat...