'TIs the season for...
Heat : 40C every day for the last month and next week as well, until the monsoon bursts upon us.
Cyclones : not yet, but I'm watching the satellite feeds with great interest and attention.
Flowers: Indian laburnum, flame of the forest (Delonix regia) in all shades of vermilion, orange and golden-yellow, cherry blossom (heat-tolerant variety from Okinawa, there's a Japanese NGO that gives them out all over the world), bouganvillea, oleander, Thevetia, Tecoma stans, blue-pea, Allamanda, all in season, all over the country (seen only in photos this year, thanks to COVID-19 travel restrictions). Pterocarpus indicus will wait until the rains come to flower
Fruit: mangoes are cheap this year, sadly for the farmers, due to COVID_19 travel restrictions. The Housekeeper is buying them in gigantic quantities, to freeze for the rest of the year; they will be made into mango ice-cream, mango sauce and chopped mango topping for cakes. The biggest wild lemon on my tree is almost completely yellow. I am checking it daily now.
Work: working from home, like everyone else with an office-based job, basically means that there is no difference between weekdays and week-ends, and between work days and public holidays. I am sure companies would love to keep doing this, but it's not going to be sustainable in the long run.
Exercise: the pool has been cleaned up and the filters fixed, so it is back to a nice, clear, mostly-lifeless (I hope) blue, rather than murky green. Now I swim every day for 30-50 minutes, every evening after the water has been re-filtered.
Wondering whether to just cut all my hair off 1mm from my scalp. Who knows when my hairdresser will reopen?
Cyclones : not yet, but I'm watching the satellite feeds with great interest and attention.
Flowers: Indian laburnum, flame of the forest (Delonix regia) in all shades of vermilion, orange and golden-yellow, cherry blossom (heat-tolerant variety from Okinawa, there's a Japanese NGO that gives them out all over the world), bouganvillea, oleander, Thevetia, Tecoma stans, blue-pea, Allamanda, all in season, all over the country (seen only in photos this year, thanks to COVID-19 travel restrictions). Pterocarpus indicus will wait until the rains come to flower
Fruit: mangoes are cheap this year, sadly for the farmers, due to COVID_19 travel restrictions. The Housekeeper is buying them in gigantic quantities, to freeze for the rest of the year; they will be made into mango ice-cream, mango sauce and chopped mango topping for cakes. The biggest wild lemon on my tree is almost completely yellow. I am checking it daily now.
Work: working from home, like everyone else with an office-based job, basically means that there is no difference between weekdays and week-ends, and between work days and public holidays. I am sure companies would love to keep doing this, but it's not going to be sustainable in the long run.
Exercise: the pool has been cleaned up and the filters fixed, so it is back to a nice, clear, mostly-lifeless (I hope) blue, rather than murky green. Now I swim every day for 30-50 minutes, every evening after the water has been re-filtered.
Wondering whether to just cut all my hair off 1mm from my scalp. Who knows when my hairdresser will reopen?