Slices of my daily life

So first let me tell you why there was this delay in an update. We did another trip to London - my first love - on Monday i.e. yesterday too :) So, rewind to last Friday...12th April...which seems like so long ago since we visited London - my first love...can't say it enough :) - twice since then till now. On Friday we generally spent the day at home chilling. With brand new baby A at home, time flies. In the evening though TH and I decided that it was enough lazing around and time to get some fresh (and bitingly cold) air. So off we went to the large Tesco and the shopping complex opposite it that had TKMax and Home Base and other such shops for another round of window shopping. It helps that it is a 30 minute walk one way. It was a great walk. On the walk I saw a canal in Rugby that had a house boat too.  Spring also seems to be just around the corner. Some plants have tiny buds while some others are already flowering. On Saturday 13th April, S's mom and ...

As I sat down to write this, it started raining ! It has been very cold outside all day...in fact the wind made it freezing. And suddenly, a few minutes ago it was raining ! It's been a wonderful three days.  On the 8th, we decided to venture out on our own to the Rugby Town Centre or High Street as they call it here. The bus stop is about 2 minutes walking distance away from C&S's home.  Its an interesting system here. There's no conductor. Only the driver. You get into the bus from the front. You tell the driver where you want to go, pay the fare he tells you, take the ticket that rolls out of a small machine next to the driver and go take a seat. About a stop before you want to get off, you have to press a red button that is present on alternate bars in the bus. The driver gets an intimation and stops at your stop and you get off. So we took the bus to the town centre and despite being a weekday, there were quite a few people about.  There is a cl...