Today's mom's 80th birthday.
She's slowly limping back to normalcy after the nasty viral fever that had struck her while at Bangalore. The airconditioned multiplex did the trick, I'd forgotten to arm her with a pair of socks and a shawl!
In the morning at 6, I'd gone to her room to fetch my hat before going out for my walk when I found her already up and about. Kissing her on her forehead, I wished her many happy returns soon followed by Lekha and my sisters, Rema and Minni. Preetha, Lekha's understudy, had been dispatched to the temple for a special offering on her name.
Sudha, a management graduate who's gotten to be friendly with us on her earlier visits, dropped by and turned out to be the special guest for the cake cutting ceremony and then, there was the traditional lunch readied by Lekha and Preetha. Mom was visibly thrilled with the goings on while calls from our friends and relations kept coming from far and wide and wishes poured in.
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Had called up Kurup kochachan, in the course of the day. I'd forgotten to wish him on his birthday that had quietly passed by on the 30th of last month. My mom's illness, followed by a spate of activities at Bangalore could be cited as excuses but they'd sound banal even to my own ears and hence, I desist. And wasn't he thrilled? He's waiting for two things, he said viz.
(a) The next meeting of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy - of which he's a member - at
Thrissur after which he stays with us here, at 'The Quarterdeck'.
(b) The get together of the entire family that I'm planning at his residence at Paravoor. Indira
kunjamma, currently at Pondicherry with her elder daughter, will return by early march after
which the quorum would be complete!
He's the patriarch of the family and is coping with his aches and the pains, with Madhavan, the male nurse attending on him. His children, Gopu, Kala and Kannan visit him every week.
Tailpiece.
The first phase of 'the e-literacy programme' needs to be completed soon. There are 21 more panchayats to be visited so as to explain the nuances of the programme, spread across the districts of Wyanad, Kottayam, Ernakulam and Pathanamthitta. The next week, therefore, is gonna be full of movement!
She's slowly limping back to normalcy after the nasty viral fever that had struck her while at Bangalore. The airconditioned multiplex did the trick, I'd forgotten to arm her with a pair of socks and a shawl!
In the morning at 6, I'd gone to her room to fetch my hat before going out for my walk when I found her already up and about. Kissing her on her forehead, I wished her many happy returns soon followed by Lekha and my sisters, Rema and Minni. Preetha, Lekha's understudy, had been dispatched to the temple for a special offering on her name.
Sudha, a management graduate who's gotten to be friendly with us on her earlier visits, dropped by and turned out to be the special guest for the cake cutting ceremony and then, there was the traditional lunch readied by Lekha and Preetha. Mom was visibly thrilled with the goings on while calls from our friends and relations kept coming from far and wide and wishes poured in.
* * *
Had called up Kurup kochachan, in the course of the day. I'd forgotten to wish him on his birthday that had quietly passed by on the 30th of last month. My mom's illness, followed by a spate of activities at Bangalore could be cited as excuses but they'd sound banal even to my own ears and hence, I desist. And wasn't he thrilled? He's waiting for two things, he said viz.
(a) The next meeting of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy - of which he's a member - at
Thrissur after which he stays with us here, at 'The Quarterdeck'.
(b) The get together of the entire family that I'm planning at his residence at Paravoor. Indira
kunjamma, currently at Pondicherry with her elder daughter, will return by early march after
which the quorum would be complete!
He's the patriarch of the family and is coping with his aches and the pains, with Madhavan, the male nurse attending on him. His children, Gopu, Kala and Kannan visit him every week.
Tailpiece.
The first phase of 'the e-literacy programme' needs to be completed soon. There are 21 more panchayats to be visited so as to explain the nuances of the programme, spread across the districts of Wyanad, Kottayam, Ernakulam and Pathanamthitta. The next week, therefore, is gonna be full of movement!
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