Location: Karnataka

Echo At Cubbon Park 0

Weekly Notes 13/2024

We wanted to celebrate Echo’s birthday. We couldn’t celebrate on the 20th, so we decided to make it extra special. We took advantage of Uma’s grandparents being at home and spent the first half of Sunday with Echo celebrating and walking around in Cubbon Park. It was just the three of us: Anju,...

Summer is here. It's been very, very hot outside. Usually, I like to walk to neighborhood shops, parks, etc. It's been almost impossible, except for some streets that are blessed with trees. 1

Weekly Notes 12/2024

It’s union election time in India. The results are going to be in June. Given we have a fascist right-wing party in power now, the next two and half months will be unbearable. Social media will be at its worst; WhatsApp has been and will be the source of all kinds of fake news....

Dasavala/Hibiscus in our balcony garden. 0

Weekly Notes 11/2024

The reason why I like blogging could be a strange thing. I am not a writer; I am not even good at expressing myself or my thoughts in words. But what I am is a compulsive and obsessive documenter. I like to document things, and I have done so since I was a...

Uma and iRobot 0

Weekly Notes 10/2024

It’s interesting to see how Uma interacts with the iRobot vacuum. During the day, when it’s charging, she wants to poke it to get a reaction. Sometimes it does; if the poke is strong, it comes alive with beeps and lights and rearranges itself on the charging port, and she seems to like...

Uma petting Echo 0

Weekly Notes 09/2024

We are in March/2024 already. I have not read a book this year, but I plan to. So I started reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Hope to continue. 

Play sessions of Toddlers 1

Weekly Notes 08/2024

Uma, Pathu, Anju, and I have started going on proper evening walks. We walk around 30 minutes in the neighborhood. Echo gets a special longer walk. For now, it’s difficult for Anju and I to take all three of them for a walk simultaneously, hence this arrangement. Also, Echo can stay alone at...