We have started keeping our cheese now at Needs, a very old and popular stores in Wellington.   Wellington is about 8 km from Coonoor and where the Defence Services Training centre is (D.S.S.C). Needs used to be ‘the’ shopping place before others...

Just found this small telling bit on Dubai Crisis and Peak oil at a blog called Aleklett’s Energy Mix.  It says……….. One year ago I was preparing the article ”Aviation fuel and future oil production scenarios”, (now published in Energy Policy) och...

Zayn was teaching Pablo environmental education.  Pablo was restless as usual and shifting his chair all the time on our wooden floor.   Zayn shouted at him to stop that as he was scratching the floor. To which Pablo protested, ” Arrey first you were...

The second day after record breaking rains in Coonoor and Nilgiris we stepped out to check the damages.  Fallen boulder just at our entrance blocking the road so no driving out for a while, several cracks in our walls and in the earth and roads where...

A bear was spotted this morning by the workers working on the lower cottage.  I just got to hear about it late in the evening.  Will get the finer details from them tomorrow and add here like the color and size and what it was doing etc.