You know that our past couple of weeks have gone by obsessing over poppies and Remembrance Day. We read all that we could about them, we learned the poem In Flanders Fields by heart and we even made poppy craft for LittleB’s room. (You can …
When I moved to Chicago, it was a walk in the park. My husband was already living there for years and thus everything was all set for me from day 1. Moving to Bangalore was a just a bit tricky. We were moving, but to …
As I sit writing about my first month in London, this is the view that I have from my window. Isn’t it pretty? The colour of the sky is the right sort of blue. The colour of the clouds is the right sort of white. …
I haven’t been writing for a while now. Around a month and a half, that was when I last posted a blog here at YellowMellowLife. And the reason for that is this big event that is taking place in my life right now. I had …
You might find it amusing that learnt to cook this chickpea curry not in India but here in the Britain. No one I know back in north-India cooks their chickpea curry with spinach and squash! Residing here in the UK, when I am discussing food …
Presenting my new favourite hot summer’s lunch – Smashed cucumber salad and grilled halloumi mishmosh London’s temperature is touching 30 degrees each day, the Met Office has issued an ‘unprecedented’ heatwave warning and I am trying to find any excuse that I can to not …
We have moved houses again! It simply sounds insane when I tell someone that in our last three years in London we have lived in three different houses. And no, we didn’t move for the most common reasons that people move for, like school change …
A couple of years back, I believed that I have a running limit. I believed that there is a limit to how far I can run. I did understand that with time I’ll get better at running but I thought this ‘better’ would probably be …
Cambridge University has always sounded to me like an exclusive place reserved only for people who are extraordinary and exceptional. Like one has to be particularly phenomenal to be allowed to enter through the University’s Trinity Great Gate. Like one has to be a Stephen …
In January 2016, the 32 year-old me decided that she was going to run, literally. To start running in 30s! I don’t know what came over me when I made that choice. Maybe because it was a new year and in that spirit, I felt …