Wednesday, April 20, 2005

I am trying to get fit

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Now that the weather is really great I have started walking. In so doing I came across the first flowers in the city. First Spring Flowers...
Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Celebrate the 86th Birthday

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Please join Annikki and me in wishing a wonderful lady, known to most of us as Pallammachi, a very happy birthday today. She is a very grace...
Sunday, April 17, 2005

In Oulu we are celebrating

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Yes, we are celebrating something that probably of least interest to most of you. Our local Ice Hockey Team, Kärpät, has just won the Nation...
Saturday, April 16, 2005

Sorry for the absence

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I was quite well, thank you. Many of you emailed me because I was not active on the blog last week. The reason was not me, but grandson, Sam...
Monday, April 11, 2005

Another 60 year birthday

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A couple of weeks ago we celebrated the birthday 70th birthday of Kunjumonchayan. On a quieter note today we can wish his better half, Omena...
Thursday, April 07, 2005

Great news - Another blog to visit

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Great news, as daughter Susanna, in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, England, has started her own blog. Its been a long way from here: Susanna in ...
Monday, April 04, 2005

Listen to Susanna on Radio Lincolnshire today

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Susanna and family, Chris and Asha, have been on an experiment to not use a credit card for meeting daily living costs. This is an effort to...
Sunday, April 03, 2005

Kimi on the podium, Narain out in 3rd

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Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen drove a great race to come in third while his team-mate, stand in for Pablo Montoya, Pedro de la Rosa, had a e...

Kimi 9th and Narain 18th on grid

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The pole position for today's Formula 1 in Bahrain was grabbed by Fernando Alonso (Spa) Renault with a time of 3:01.902 while Michael Sc...
Friday, April 01, 2005

A pleasant email from Saroopya

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I was very pleasantly surprised to get an email from a young engineering graduate from Madras, Saaroopya Gollapudi. Vishnu, Veena, Saroopya...
Wednesday, March 30, 2005

News from Madras

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Susanna wrote to me from Billinghay, Lincolnshire, England: Did you know that Shirin and I are also in the same line of work?? We both are ...
Sunday, March 27, 2005

Mammen Eapen - 70 glorious years

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Some people do wondrous works to get recognised. My dear cousin, Kunjumonchayan (Mammen Eapen), son of the late K. M. Eapen (Eapachayan, my ...

Happy Easter

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Happy Easter to all of you from Oulu, Finland from Annikki, Annikki's mother Hilja, Mika, our cat, Iitu and myself. Joanna, Tony, Samue...
Saturday, March 26, 2005

Road chaos in Finland

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Thursday before last we saw traffic chaos in many parts of Finland never before witnessed in this country. I was taking Mika out that evenin...
Friday, March 25, 2005

Happy Birthday Anand

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Annikki and I would like you to join me in wishing Anand (Beaver) Matthan, younger son of the late George Matthan Sr., husband of Shallu (né...

A difference of culture

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(I owe my secular, liberal view of life entirely to my life in my alma maters, Good Shepherd Convent, Mysore, Bishop Cotton's School, Ba...

A Count in Sadness

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As a member of the Maliyakal Family we have been 16 cousins. In the Kandathil family we have been 30 cousins. God has blessed us with long l...
Thursday, March 24, 2005

Hot Cross Buns

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Hot Cross Buns are traditionally served on Good Friday (the Friday before Easter) and during the Lenten season. My mother used to always hav...
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Let us remember a great man today

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15 years ago today the Kandathil family lost a great man. My uncle, K. M. Varghese Mappillai, Varichayan to me, and called by many endearing...
Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Mr. Organiser is 75 today

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Did you ever wonder how all our Kandathil family gatherings, weddings and other events went off without a hitch. Working tirelessly behind t...