Vanakkam Doctor !

Mukil (our son) was very annoyed with me few days ago. It was his birthday last week and I am yet to blog about him, unlike his sister’s. Well, I thought I would write something about him today, on this PONGAL day. I have taken off today, which I normally do for PONGAL and the kids too. I love PONGAL, than any other Hindu festivals for too many reasons and which itself needs a bigoblog. Well, coming to Mukil…. Mukil was conceived in a Travel lodge. I am not talking about the plans for of having a baby, way back in 2002, but the technical aspects were done in that Travel lodge, in East Didsbury, no that far from where we live now! I have to thank, our friend Ramesh, who is a GP now in Grimsby for that entertaining and productive weekend! It was his son’s combined birth day celebrations, which he had organised in his then house in Blackburn . It was an unforgettable birthday party for tooo many reasons. One was Mukil’s possible embryoge...

2010 and North Wales . Well, we were on the other side of our planet, for the past one week and just managed to be back in town, a culture shock indeed! There were thirteen of us for this last minute getaway to a northern Wales cottage house in a place called Llanbedr, Harlech.  We arrived at the cottage on the bank holiday Monday for a week’s stay, like the previous year, which, however, soon turned out to be an interesting mixed baggage of surprises, unlike the dawn of 2009. Obviously, there was no internet connection to relax us (!) and therefore no Facebook, email or internet explorer!! The signals were patchy even for mobile phones and at times all of us had to huddle into a corner in one of the first floor rooms, for a quickie! Even then the talk time never went beyond few minutes and at times possibly few seconds. I meant a real quickie over the phone! Lots of time was spent as usual on gabbing and gassing about life and the world. We sneaked at quit...