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Just one of those days when the travel stuff goes wrong

The day had started so well, but the travel mishaps came one after another. It was a bad travel day.

Gili Trewangan, The house in Eat Pray Love, the Lost Phone dance, travel blogger, travel mishaps, ubud

The F*** word, the trickiest word in the English language

F word is perhaps the most varying and interchangeable word in the English language. Mesmersing, confusing, even bamboozling, sometimes cool in the right company and nearly always crude and vulgar.

The rose bush that didn’t give roses

See that rose bush above? Beautiful isn’t it? It is ever so deceptive and if you enlarge the picture you … More

flowers, gardening, roses

The awkward incident of the cat in the afternoon

The lengths I go to to protect my cat. Honestly. It was so embarrassing I haven’t seen my next door … More

cats, humour

Bird talk: how an innocent childhood hobby got the whole class laughing

Preface: in the 1980s the word bird was used as British slang to mean a girl or a woman. It … More

Experiences

My mum, the pilot

Once upon a time, a little girl was told that women shouldn’t fly airplanes … I grew up knowing ‘mum … More

Featured, female pilots, Indian women pilots, women aviators, women pilots

My Mum the Pilot

In honour of International Women’s Day, I’m reposting a blog post I wrote a few years ago which was featured … More

airplanes, Flying, international women’s day, women

A Merry Assamese Christmas (repost)

Man, those Assamese really know how to party. Here’s something I’m reposting from a couple of years ago, fond memories … More

#christmas, Do the Assamese celebrate Christmas?, How Christmas is celebrated in the UK by Assamese, India

A funny incident in the men’s loo

Men’s bathroom protocol | What goes on in the men’s loos? | What is a loo? | A funny incident| … More

heyloons, rules of the men’s restroom

The stages of going bald

It’s a very tricky time when when a man goes bald. Give him a break, it’s tough man. What’s hardest … More

beauty, fashion, hair, how to cope with going bald, losing your hair, style, the six stages of going bald

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