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Lockdown learning’s.....


1.I am learning to take care of the family.My mother is getting a respite because of a Bell’s palsy.ThankGod I was home or the family would have panicked .I am actually up bright and early to do the chores since we are not allowing anyone from outside to help in the kitchen.Welcome to adulthood .Now that was a revelation for me.

2.I  am the family barber and did a decent job with an electric rajor on my dad and my brother’s hair.Both of them look like professional footballers now.Not that they left me to it I functioned under a barrage of instruction.I also ended up nicking a tiny bit of my father’s nasal mucosa with the scissor.

3.I  have been noticing that I seem to have a passive left leg.I discovered this while exercising on a cycle.I reached my target for the day easily but was surprised by my left leg which preferred to let my right leg do most of the work.

4.One of the sad thing I realised was that I had left my musical instruments in the hospital when my mom reminded me that my classical guitar was lying in the star age place .I presumed it had some missing strings but was pleasantly surprised to see it all intact.Getting my fingers to do the exercise was something else.I am sure glad to touch base.

5.I tried my hand at putting up a wallpaper and realised that it is not my forte but got it through anyways.Since it is under the staircase of my room I think it will pass.

6.I discovered I have become stronger this holidays..I found myself running up a flight of stairs with an empty cylinder in one hand with such speed .I am not sure who was more surprised,my brother or I.

7.The vegetables we buy from the market don’t seem to last for more than two days...they start rotting but the homegrown ones last a long time.

8.I learnt to churn butter and cook it just right, into ghee.

9.I had preserved some mulberry in sugar water in a tight wooden jar .I was making some homemade vinegars in transparent jars.The dictum was not to touch with hand so I used wooden spoons as well.
Today,almost after a month we decide to pour it out in a glass jar,the mulberries look as fresh as the first day I put it in.Under the normal circumstances it goes bad after two days off the tree.

10.Most of the greens take around two weeks to sprout and is ready to be plated especially if it has been given adequate organic fertilisers.

11.Nitrogen throwing plants would do well with a conservative take on fertilisers ,plants gain height but hardly flower so fruit less.We are talking about soyabean here.

12.It rains almost every other night in SIkkim with sunny crystal clear days.Goodside is plants don’t need to be watered but for the ones in the hot house but the flip side is ,isn’t it too early for the rains.Most of my memory is of being in the heart of India and watching the skies for the cloud and the date June 15 and beyond for respite.

13.As the rest of India rush to get their quota of liquor,in SIkkim the rush is for meat.With the government putting a ban on poultry we are fast becoming vegetarians.None of my family members seem to mind .

15.I wake up everyday to the sight of the hills on my horizon and the majestic Mount Kanchendjonga..I never seem to get enough of it.My hometown has not surprised us with new peaks suddenly becoming visible.It was and hopefully will remain pollution free.The government has already put odd and even days for plying vehicles as lockdown relaxes.

16.I seem to be doing fine by God’s grace,stretching a lot of muscles in all dimensions I never knew existed.

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