Category: home management

  • A stress free home –the well spring of energy

    “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” ― Edith Sitwell Ever wondered what is home? Someone said home is a place but a person To me it is a safe place, a…

  • Fa diz th’ grottie linen?

    Who does the dirty linen?   I have a dirty battered superwoman cape for the cleaners. It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. Laurence J. Peter Have you been handed the superwoman cape, mine is kind of battered yet it is very much there.…

  • Quicker moving and settling

    Quicker moving and settling

    “I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.” ― Judith Minty, Letters to My Daughters Looks, like Indiblogger has decided, that the New year should bring fresh beginning that includes a new location. Moving to a new city…

  • Mam’s Day Gift.

    May 11th the much touted Mother’s day, I even wondered if I should gift my mother Margarita after all I would have driven her to it if we were in another social context. But what intrigued me is May 10th, where uncle Sam’s land actually had dedicated a day to see that every mother gets…

  • Hotwatah and deep kip. Don’t you know?

    Reborn each day with hot water There was CHAOS in my life, that is Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome. Then came the house-fairy, she weeded, prodded and brought me into routine. Hell with traditions and superstitions, but my housework happens in the evening at 6.30pm after I return from work. A warm cup of coffee…

  • Bombay smell!

    Smelly to smiley.– www.facebook.com/AmbiPurIndia “Bombay smell” my 2 ½ yr. Old daughter had declared. We were amused then. We were amused again, when she declared it as we entered a flat that was shut for about a year. The smell was stagnant water and rotting sewer. but then I realized the there were no good…