A dear friend who read my recent post called me just to enquire why I was feeling low, and insisted I come over and spend the evening there…felt so touched and happy…I am incredibly lucky with my friends!

I must explain this phrase for my non-Indian friends. Most trucks and several small vans carry that message on their rear bumpers (fenders)…it means, “please sound your horn and overtake me” (or more truly, “keep honking on your horn and I will block your way as much as I can”.)

Note: must ALWAYS ensure that I have a nice looong time when I go to my friends’ LJ’s; never to go visiting when I am rushing out for something else; there will be interesting anecdotes, intriguing accounts, arresting photographs, amazing insights,without fail, and I have to tear myself away…

Age is one thing, maturity quite another.

Though tells me that SHIKRAs are pretty common in Bangalore Bengaluru, I have never seen this bird inside the city limits before.