The Dogs

Last week, this time, it was Peppu and me getting ready for our daily forest romp. Water and bowl and mobile in bag, we set off with Bruni, Kajal, Choti and Mystery. Fun at the cracked water pipe, fun...

It will soon be 8 weeks of Biskit leaving us for the Rainbow Bridge. I look down at her grave, with its little sapling of scented geranium, count the number of sprouting leaves on her memorial shrub, ...

I will give you a hint... There are six sleeping dogs in that muddle of blankets and rugs. This is the only picture that was taken during those 12 hours of surgery, 2 days of holding onto our free sp...

Ten weeks had to be kept aside for loving Biskit. No blog posts, not much of knitting, few emails and Facebook interactions, no visits and chats over tea and hot snacks, few guests and conversations. ...

It's 4 am..and there are two sets of rhythmic background sounds... The quiet drumming of raindrops as we get our first winter rains. This delay does not bode well for the summer, but hey, lets not ru...

Ranikhet is situated in the lap of the Himalayas. To state a fact, 10 states of India are located in the realms of this range of mighty mountains. Mighty mountains have foot hills and rolling valleys...

My friend bid farewell to her darling St Bernard yesterday. For years, I have listened to her innumerable fond accounts of unsocial Diwali nights with loud TV and large doses of hugs and sedatives … o...

This Sunday was an authentic hot summer's day.  It started off well enough, with some fresh cool winds breezing through the pine trees and putting a spring in the four sets of doggy-paws intent on pul...