Oops…
forgot to add the link to ABC Wednesday . Apologies.
L is for Lilies
A game of cricket
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| The batsman and the wicketkeeper |
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| The bowler |
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| The spectators |
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Some watch from balcony seats
The wicketkeeper/fielder wondering.. Mera number kab ayega |
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| Change of batting.. the coach steps in to help |
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| This bowler knows how its done |
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| The coach gives a demo… |
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| And the ball is lost.
End of game. |
Linking to the Thursday Challenge : “HAPPY” (Playing, Laughter, Things one enjoys, Happy people,…)
And
Linking to ABC Wednesday
: G is for Game
C is indeed for Cats
The first time I ever stayed away from home was at a working women’s hostel. I spent the first night there listening to what sounded like babies crying. I spent many days wondering where the babies disappeared during the day, why I never actually saw any of them, only to discover it was the cats. They sound disconcertingly like human babies. I stayed there for a year and never did get used to their all-night mewing.
Yeah you’ve guessed, I’m not a cat person. The only cats I really like are the Cheshire Cat and Garfield.
However I do have a bunch of cat crazy friends who bombard Facebook with cute cat pictures. One of them runs a veritable cat home, bringing in more and more homeless creatures everyday. Then there are others who are so cued in to their cats (and so clueless about humans) that when I had my babies one of them called to congratulate me and asked “Have they opened their eyes yet?”
This then, is for all of them.
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| Some go this way, and some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the short-cut. the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland |
Linking to ABC Wednesday
Zzzzzz….
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| Hrit naps during a recent road trip. The pic is clicked by my sister who tells me I had dozed off too |
And while we’re at it here are some sleep facts…
Our sleep-wake cycle causes a drop in alertness between about 2 and 5 pm in the afternoon and more dramatically in the early morning between 2 and 5 am. This suggests we need two sleep periods a day, as in siesta cultures… which is why old time shops in Pune (and Calcutta) down shutters between 1 and 4 pm. During my summer training days at Indian Oil Corporation there was a special room for women where they could take a siesta each afternoon. What luxury! Wonder if it’s still there.
Daytime naps improve memory, help you remember important facts and cut risk of heart disease.
On an average we spend 1/3 of our life sleeping… Wow!
A new baby typically results in 400-750 hours lost sleep for parents in the first year. (No wonder….)
Kids who regularly sleep more than 8 to 9 hours tend to have stronger immune systems and get fewer colds… which is why I pack off the kids by 9pm.
Some studies suggest women need up to an hour’s extra sleep a night compared to men… I knew it!
Whales don’t sleep. Dolphins don’t either. They turn off half their brain, resting it, while the other half is awake. If they fell asleep, they’d not come up to breathe and so drown. .. This last one comes from Hrit himself.. from his ‘I-love-Sharks phase.