The day had begun on a quiet note as I'd got up at 6, as usual, to light the lamp and get the morning hymns going on the home theatre. The volume was so adjusted that it didn't disturb the ones who were asleep. Soon, Lekha, Rema and Mini were active in the kitchen with their chores. Suma kunjamma left home by a quarter past 7 to the temple to join up in the 'senior citizen's queue', to have an early tete-a-tete with god.
It was a noisy breakfast and we'd thrashed out all the details regarding the engagement ceremony - the number of guests, the broad room allocation for the various groups, the sequence of events, the pooling and allocation of the resources and finally, the departure of the guests. While we were at it, Suma kunjamma had returned and joined us pronto to devour the delicious steam cooked 'puttu' with home grown bananas. Sanil, Mini and Ammu left on the dot, at 10, for Bangalore. They're going through the Mudhumalai - Bandipur stretch as planned earlier - they'd come by that route - being the shortest and the road was nice. They were told to update me with their progress, on reaching every important point, which they did.
Then, it was conversation time followed by a boisterous lunch at 1, despite the fact that our strength was down by 3. A short snooze and it was time, yet again, for the next set of guests to leave. Padmakumar, Rema and Achu left for Palakkad at 5. Suma kunjamma was dropped at the temple - for the evening tryst - before they shaped their course to Palakkad!
My evening walk was towards town, to buy medicines, as Lekha's cough was getting to be mean and she needed to be put on a course of antibiotics, forthwith. In the process, I, too had a meeting with god before I bought up the sundries/m and was finally on my home stretch. On return, I realised that Suma kunjamma had returned about ten minutes earlier than me and calls from Sanil, saying that they'd reached their destination at Bangalore by a quarter to 7 and Padmakumar, at Palakkad by a 10' to 8, came in soon after!
It was a quiet evening, thereafter, with just the three of us - Suma kunjamma, Lekha and I.
Tailpiece.
Must call up Nandakumar tomorrow to do up some of the pending repairs around the house, though trivial but can get to be a nuisance if not attended to immediately.
It was a noisy breakfast and we'd thrashed out all the details regarding the engagement ceremony - the number of guests, the broad room allocation for the various groups, the sequence of events, the pooling and allocation of the resources and finally, the departure of the guests. While we were at it, Suma kunjamma had returned and joined us pronto to devour the delicious steam cooked 'puttu' with home grown bananas. Sanil, Mini and Ammu left on the dot, at 10, for Bangalore. They're going through the Mudhumalai - Bandipur stretch as planned earlier - they'd come by that route - being the shortest and the road was nice. They were told to update me with their progress, on reaching every important point, which they did.
Then, it was conversation time followed by a boisterous lunch at 1, despite the fact that our strength was down by 3. A short snooze and it was time, yet again, for the next set of guests to leave. Padmakumar, Rema and Achu left for Palakkad at 5. Suma kunjamma was dropped at the temple - for the evening tryst - before they shaped their course to Palakkad!
My evening walk was towards town, to buy medicines, as Lekha's cough was getting to be mean and she needed to be put on a course of antibiotics, forthwith. In the process, I, too had a meeting with god before I bought up the sundries/m and was finally on my home stretch. On return, I realised that Suma kunjamma had returned about ten minutes earlier than me and calls from Sanil, saying that they'd reached their destination at Bangalore by a quarter to 7 and Padmakumar, at Palakkad by a 10' to 8, came in soon after!
It was a quiet evening, thereafter, with just the three of us - Suma kunjamma, Lekha and I.
Tailpiece.
Must call up Nandakumar tomorrow to do up some of the pending repairs around the house, though trivial but can get to be a nuisance if not attended to immediately.
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