Namaskarams to Ramani Athimber on his Sathabhishekam.

Ramu C, I am sure you got a hell of a beating from Akila for mistaking her peacock to be a parrot :) I know how tough it is to do embroidery - I love doing it, managed one piece when I was in Muscat. I got it framed only after coming to Madras, and now after this painting I have even found the place to hang it!
I did another one metre x one meter jute cross stitch of a geometric design. I started when I was relaxing at K Gardens before Rajiv's birth. And completed when he was about 15 years old!!!
Akila, I am coming to taste all your bakes - sounds really mouth watering!

The painters are through a contractor who has been serving L&T employees for more than 20 years, so he is very reliable. And I can now vouch for it - the men are very good workers and very well behaved. We did not have to be after them to check each and every thing. They do offer to take out things from the cupboards and put them back, but thing is, except for the big items in the 'parann', we prefer to handle it ourselves.
Furniture polishing is still on.
Gayathri