30 in 2005

Every year she buys two dozen tulips. Back from work he pretends not to notice, even though they undeniably sit in the giant unused fish bow...

I have a house and life full of junk and yet I want more. Somebody stop me! The reality is that I don't have as much junk as I make this...

All bullet points – else we’ll never get to the end of this. - It’s been WEEKS since we’ve been back and nobody but seems to mind the extrao...

The thing about SFO was that it was never ever going to be a rushing around visiting every tourist landmark holiday. None of our holidays ev...

There is no excuse for tardiness, especially in the unpredictability of this here today gone tomorrow kind of life. So I’m pulling up my soc...

I'm sitting in the airline lounge sipping on water and waiting for our flight to bring us back to London. I cannot believe how quickly o...

This weekend I'm leaving behind the London forecast of artic winds and 2 flakes of snow for the sunnier climes of California. I'm ta...

On Sunday V and I travelled across London to the Twickenham Stoop to join a bunch of colleagues in the front row of a Harlequins versus Wasp...

It turns out that promises I make myself I rarely keep. I was going to blog about the many diwali’s last week but was too caught up in the w...

Dear Blog, Morning. MORNING. MORNING . MORNING. Point to note for www posterity: Barack Obama has won the 44th presidency of the United Stat...

Today I woke up thinking it would be a good day to be American. Or that instead of being American for the day (I won't give up my Indian...

Right. So Diwali. That will be my next post. And if I manage to get my act together then it will even have *gasp* a photograph. Note to self...

It's Diwali people! And despite a very hectic few days I am planning to celebrate properly. So 1 diya on Dhanteras (done), 11 diyas on c...

Growing up I would have gnawed off and gifted you my right arm if you had straight hair and were willing to exchange it with the curly mallu...

When we are young - and I mean teen young, early twenties young - we swing wildly between supreme confidence and crashing insecurity. Some o...

Ok, so I have been back from tropical hot and rainy Singapore for nearly a week now but not written. I have an entirely plausible excuse - s...

Right. It's high time I got my act together. So here goes: 1. Birthday things: More than two months late but with every good intention h...

I am sorry. You are in my thoughts and prayers. And I know that these are of no comfort. Especially across the oceans. I want to mark this w...

I’ve recently been given the same award by two lovely blogger ladies who have very different lives and very different blogs. In an e-mail I ...

There are 4 categories of people in my gym (and no, it’s not small, medium, large and extra-large): 1. The Everyday, All-the-timers There ar...