#AtoZChallenge 2020

In the good old days, I remember my granny telling me the story of the Crow and the Sparrow while having my meals.  In this story, a wet crow wants shelter in a sparrow’s home. Now the crow’s house was made of cow dung which got washed away during the rains. The sparrow’s house was Read more

Long before Downton Abbey, there was a television serial called Upstairs ,Downstairs. Both were highly popular British television series. Downton Abbey was set in the countryside while Upstairs, Downstairs was set in London. Both were about aristocratic families and their servants. In our context, however, Ms. Papaya thinks that the neighbours upstairs, the Aptes are Read more

When we were growing up, a watch or clock made a sound that went Tick-Tock. And as babies, we were told that all watches went tick-tock. However, modern watches do not go tick-tock, and yet we call them tick-tocks. Hubby Dear who loves collecting watches realised that he had to keep his watches wound all Read more