Wednesday, October 31, 2012

July 2012: Diya paints a gnome

We got Diya a gnome which can be painted. Here are the photographs of her painting it.

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It was a lovely warm day outside

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And we were concentrating very hard, even the gnome looked happy

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It requires concentration, you know?

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A light touch..

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And these are the bloody furbies. Kannu had them before but I didnt realise that Sangeeta had saved them! grumbles. Now the house is full of VELO!!! Mamma, I’m hungry! mutters

July 2012: Diya paints a gnome

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

July 2012: Food and Drink

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a little slice of the heavenly liquid

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home grown chillies

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Mango man?

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just missed wtf by a whisker

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mmmm, yummy…

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King Kong Kang Kong, vegetables but they contain meat, lol, guaranteed to confuse vegetarians…

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now those are great table decorations…at the local ice cream shoppe Smile

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We went to a Brazilian restaurant in the O2, yummy!!! You have these round plastic bits with you. red means they stop bringing you food, green means they keep on bringing you wonderful meats…yummy

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And then the sweet trolley comes..

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Check out what I went for but the rather soggy banana skin didnt push my buttons

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Making chocolate devil’s cake for Sameer

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The girls decorating the cake



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And here is the finished article

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mmmm, yummy

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Firing up the first BBQ of the summer

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At Paul’s…its like heaven

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At a Moroccan restaurant, now that look delish..

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humph, what’s this picture doing in the middle of food pics?

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That’s so evil, dark and light at the same time

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How rude!

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Mamma made fish curry Smile with broad beans from the home garden..

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Icecream shop..Mr. Twist, near our house Smile

Monday, October 29, 2012

July 2012: Fun with Diya

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Here is my little munchkin, we are waiting for Sameer Mama and Anika at Heathrow

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We went to see Diya’s Ballet show, here’s a farmhouse in front of her

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After eating one of Baba’s BBQ meals

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Standing in front of Mamma’s books, they are on 4th of the best seller lists.

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See?

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Im wearing a very summery dress, which got me squished by Baba

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Im not feeling very well Sad smile

Baba experimented with me

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A tracing of the hand

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We start colouring in

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More colours

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Does it look 3D?

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Got an excellent set of Gibbons. 1800. Perhaps one of the best books ever written in English.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Lovely and strange flowers in London

I think I had to go to the Radisson in London near Canary Wharf for a conference and landed there a bit early.

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Looking straight ahead

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Looking left

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Wide sweep of the Thames

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And panning right

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Far right

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How do these panoramas look eh?

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Turning back…

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Lovely purple flowers

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The O2 looks beautiful..

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Flowers dripping with rain

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Its clouding over

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Sticks and stones? Smile with tongue out