Last lunch of 2013.. What a year it’s been!
Last lunch of 2013.. What a year it’s been!
Nostalgia
While I sit here..
While I sit here eating bagels with cream cheese and drinking coffee too fast, it is 6.30pm somewhere in the world. Someone, somewhere is playing hip-hop loudly while getting dressed for a third date. Someone is tumbling out of bed with a crick in their neck and promising to restart…
Life is..
I make plans, dream little dreams, dream bigger ones. Think of how I’ll be when I finally grow up.. Of all the things I want to do, places I want to see, people I want to be. But life? Life doesn’t care so much about the five year plans and…
Ten Years Ago
I did not own a mobile phone. This was probably a good thing, since mobile phones were the size of a ham radio – not including the extendable antenna The computer I used had a CRT monitor, as did my television There was no Facebook There was also no broadband….
Of the small and sundry
There is a strange pleasure in the repetition of manual tasks. In the slicing of an apple for instance. The knife poised expectantly above the freshly washed skin. Leaping, almost, out of my hand in an eagerness to slice through the firm red fruit. Thick creamy slices edged in deep…
How she made sambhar in the London borough of Tower Hamlets
She waves her hand above the saucepan. The oil is hot enough. She throws in the mustard seeds that burst into life, crackling. Adds the chopped onions. Saute the onions until translucent.. she reads her mother’s neat handwriting. Recipes written for onions that were bright violet in the cart that…
Time ‘n Tide
This weekend as the clocks went back, I gained an hour. A precious gift on a chilly Sunday morning with two 1 AMs Instead of going back the entire hour at one go, like the rest of England and Europe (Yes, as someone who had to fill countless forms, shell…
7 1/2 Things you probably don’t know about me for sure..
1. I don’t get a daily newspaper. I’m sadly out of touch with the real world except for my hour at the gym where I watch the “Alert” headlines on a 24X7 News channel. And we all know how perfectly useless those are. 2. I don’t get sleazy jokes in…
A Very Warm Day
It was a very warm day. Too early for summer. She dreaded what summer would be like. Already the cooler was running, the fan was on 5 and she felt hot and uncomfortable. The room smelled of dust. Dust everywhere. In the crevices of the keyboard, on top of everything….