NOEL ELLIS' GOOGLE BLOG

  NEW COUPLE IN TOWN   LT COL NOEL ELLIS 30/III/2024   Since about a month a couple has been visiting our neighbourhood regularly. They are shy but very talkative with each other. My guess was that they could be planning to build their abode. This couple would come, hang around, visit our garden, appreciate our flowers but then the moment I or my wife would go out they would retreat and vanish. With circumstances prevailing in society, no one talks to no one unless the ice has broken. We took it in that spirit. Renovation and construction in the neighbourhood brings its own issues. The clangs, bangs, cheen-choon of various cutters, the chatter of the labour, dust and above all an uncouth surrounding till the contractor leaves lock stock and barrel. I had it in mind to tell this couple to please cooperate and ensure to reduce pollutants to the barest minimum. I kept quiet and kept observing. Many times, they would get intimate. It was like catching Mommy kissing Santa Clau...

  Ornithogalum white star or Star of Bethlehem joins the ELLIS' Garden, Dil Khush 🤍

  Watering the garden

  What a catch

  Moon today 🌖

  Find the Odd Man out

  Mollies make my 💜 DIL KHUSH 💙

  A small effort to keep sparrows 🐦 fed and bees hydrated in the Ellis' Garden. Happy World Honeybee 🐝 and Sparrow Day

  CATCHING A GUPPY   LT COL NOEL ELLIS 18/III/2024   Some of us would be maintaining aquariums. They would know that it takes a great effort to catch a particular fish. Especially, when there are fish galore in the tank. Fish are clever. They may look innocent and cute but are super intelligent, according to my experience. They know and anticipate danger. Fish in water are not easy to catch. They know if there is something amiss. Let me give a little story of catching one guppy which was evading me and my fish net for almost a month. How hard I tried, it was all in vain. All the other fish got caught, but this smart fishy managed to wriggle out. Once she got caught but then jumped back and hid herself for many days. Why I was after this particular guppy was because she was the ‘odd man’ out. This tank had only mollies. The two species can coexist but then it was not fair. Spotting this guppy was like finding a needle in a haystack. I wanted her to live w...

  Guess the flower?

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  The second colour this season, 💜 DIL KHUSH 💜

💜 DIL KHUSH 🧡

  💙 DIL KHUSH 🧡

  HIBISCUS-ELLIS' GARDEN 07 MARCH 24 🧡 DIL KHUSH💚

  ANOTHER WAR   LT COL NOEL ELLIS 06/III/2024   Since the time elections happened in Pakistan, there has been a kind of lull. No news of any terrorist attack, no suicide bombing, no attacks from Taliban and Iran too has gone quiet. Political turmoil besides, there is something amiss, which is not coming to the fore. Fact is, this country is in a turmoil, especially financially. Now that there are various ‘selected’ governments in place in their center and four states, no politician has a formula to bail the country out. The Military is controlling all strings from behind the shadows is clear from the way these elections were rigged. They too do not have a solution, except for firing from the politicians shoulders. ‘Noon League’ got a boot and so did all the other parties literally, but their marriage of convenience which politics is all about all over the world has ushered in some method in the madness. The man who actually should have swept the elections, i...

  Two new Hibiscus colours join the ELLIS' Garden ❤ DIL KHUSH 💙

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