30 in 2005

I’ve never been big on Indian Classical music. More specifically I don’t really understand classical vocal music or follow it avidly. [Gasps...

Back in the middle of the week from a work trip, accompanied by a new rug and a sore throat. Spent two days in bed, with much tissue and tea...

I was away on work in Eastern European, working longer hours than I am used to, trying desperately to soak in the culture. The blurred news ...

Eating my way through New York City Scene Now: It’s been weeks since I got back and life has been moving at a clip I don’t normally relish....

New York, New York I spent a week toodling around the sweltering city while V worked all hours of day and night. I cannot accurately describ...

When I write my memoirs they will not be much more than a collection of short and funny and sometimes bizarre stories about airplane journey...

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...