I am the Brittania jingle today
from when I set out on the long walk from new home (yayyy) to office in the morning
Didn’t fall asleep quickly last night…first night alone in new house…pillow arrived much, much before dreamless sleep. Read hemingway in hope of water n salt dreams…kept hoping till the pigeons woke me up! They get rather loud, those fellows. But yes, their gurgle is any day preferred to ma’s hoarse roar (full of ferocious love, am sure). The terrace my new shack’s on – was apparently a roosting ground for pigeons….till OB (awesome neighbour plus sexy cook, on same terrace, but in executive suite) drove them almost away two bird-generations back. But such responsible strangers birds are I tell you….they returned to ensure early rising happened on my first morning in new cubby.
P.S. The third morning actually, but the first two were cruelly snatched from me by a drunken, passed out small girl who refused to leave before sunset. So real celebration of new home started only last night
And I don’t know how it happened, but I broke the metal standing things attached to my rickety bed…so second round of stealthy sleep was disturbed by loud clanging things…had a great fall, the metal thing, with my clothes n all….but it’s ok, not the kind of damage that’ll disrupt sleep tonight
So anyway, morning alone-coffee was full of silly grins on the terrace…I can wake up at the same late hour and spend twice the time on coffee now :-))))))))))))))))))))
And ofcourse, the silliness had to increase……BMP auto stops at corner below with “Bengalooru Mahanagara Palike City News” blaring broadcast. No news too obviously…just a saccharine voicing threat to residents that legal action will be taken if we don’t participate in Keep-City-Clean project. I ran inside to fetch ashtray.
Walked to the office!! Small girl called n quickly warned me to not resort to cheap tricks like jumping into a rickshaw – don’t you dare take an auto, it’s a two-minute, enjoy the walk!!
I did!!!
And walked in at unprecedented 15minutes late at work!! (everyone else comes in atleast an hour late, comparison accentuates..)
My new home!!!….match-box sized on garden terrace! View includes ugly bubble-head-dome of an uglier house, but still….who cares…there’s pigeons for alarm clocks…and open terrace with rusted swing for coffee time...and kind neighbour who cooks lovely smelling dishes and invites me to pig...and a very nice road also i discovered nearby for late evening, jolly strolls....many watering holes all in one kilometer radius...and last but not the least, big lake little away!
First day full of tra la la la laaaaa’s
