Category: Read about my escapades!

In England you could apply for your provisional driving license when you turned 17 and you could then proceed to take driving lessons with large plates clearly showing L(learner)in a bold font attached to the front and back of the car. This of course meant that your 17th birthday present was a given – driving…

So, I have been told by my children that Teen Patti is now very passé and the new game to play is Poker  but be that as it may I am a Teen  Patti player through and through. We went through a phase many years ago where Vinay , myself and 3 couple friends started…

I love meeting my girlfriends over a long relaxing lunch any day over a dinner party which only starts at 10 pm, the food is served at about midnight and you get home by 1am and thus making you groggy and miserable all the next day. And mind you this has no reflection on the…

I have seen 3 generations of birthday parties and how they have changed!! So, my birthday parties were all held in Manchester. We used to call about 15-20 friends to the house and we would play pass the parcel, musical chairs, pin the tail on the donkey and a few other such games. If the…

A few lesser known facts about the New year.  The tradition of making New Year’s resolutions has been around for thousands of years, and its origins can be traced back to ancient Babylon. The Babylonians celebrated the new year with a 12-day festival called Akitu. During this festival, people would: Plant crops.Pledge allegiance to the reigning…

As the year 2024 comes to an end I was just thinking about what has happened over the year and I must say that in my case it has ben quite a roller coaster! I lost four relatives who were all very dear to me. At the beginning of the year Vinay’s Chachaji passed away……

During this time last year we were talking to friends and Vinay blithely and with great authority announced that I had been on  8 holidays in the year. I didn’t say anything at the time but in my mind I thought it was a slight exaggeration and of course me being me couldn’t sleep that…

When my sister Suman was young she would not eat a meal without tomato ketchup. Whenever we used to go to a restaurant my mother would quietly look around to locate where the bottles were kept so that she could just get up and fetch it herself rather than have to ask for one. My…

Bhimshankar Ruia or Uncle Bhim as I called him was my eldest Chacha and he suddenly passed away this morning. Although I had learnt of his illness just a couple of weeks ago one never imagined that he would leave so soon. It came as a huge shock and great sadness but I suppose the…

Over Diwali one tends to over indulge in most things be it going to parties to eating heavy food to over drinking and to gorging on delicious mithais. What does one do when faced with such temptations? So when my daughter Rashi suggested we go for a detox to Atmantan I agreed with great alacrity…