Wednesday, January 9, 2019

All India strike by the trade unions - day 2.

It was a late night, last night as we were watching the day's episode of 'Crime patrol' on the Sony channel but had got up with the alarm that went off at 6 AM on Lekha's cellphone. We'd rung up Padmakumar to wish him many happy returns, as today was his birthday as per the English calendar. I'd wanted to turn off to sleep for some more time but desisted from it. By doing so we'd avenged(?) our slip of forgetting his birthday on 05 Jan, as per the Malayalam calendar!

I'd quickly gone for the first edition of the 'washing machinex' planned for the day and in the bargain, changed the bed linen of all the bedrooms. Went through my chores and had my morning cuppa before the 20' walking exercise, that I undertook, within our courtyard. A quick bath and the second round of 'washing machinex' to clear up the other set of clothes that we'd used over the last couple of days.

The day was quiet, as it was yesterday, but the franchisee of our newspaper distribution had knocked at the door to collect his dues for Dec '18. Had a long chat with Ammayi to know about Chambu's medical condition; the fever was gone, his bronchial pneumonia was under control and they were going through the discharge formalities from the KIMS hospital.

Lekha's lunch was light and nice, consisting of dosas and chutney. We, then, watched the television for a while before knocking off for the siesta.

The rest of the day went off uneventfully.


Tailpiece.

 Alok Verma, the reinstated CBI Director, has got back his man AK Sharma as the Joint Director(Policy). He seems to be hell bent on taking on the government though he's not entitled to take policy decisions.

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