NOEL ELLIS' GOOGLE BLOG

  DIL KHUSH FLOWERING SEASON   LT COL NOEL ELLIS   01/X/2024   What is more unpredictable? ‘Man’ or the ‘weather’. I can predict your answer. It is Man. However, what is happening in the Sun city is that we are not sure what the weather is going to be in the next twelve hours. Quite unpredictable, I must say.   It was a normal warm and humid day yesterday.  However, the garden both on the ground floor and the rooftop couldn’t be avoided. Daily grooming and inspection have to be done. Some pots may need water, some may need a trim or a hoe. Besides feeding the birds and fish, all these things have to be done, irrespective of the weather.   Potted plants were asking for water in the evening. These days, instead of watering them everyday, we have started watering them once every two days. If some plants wilt, which can be observed from their leaves, that pot is watered as an exception.   That took me to the rooftop to see what was happening there. As I shoved my hand into the water tub to

  VISIT TO KUMBHALGARH   LT COL NOEL ELLIS 30/IX/2024   NDA Course mates are ‘jiggries’ to the core. This is what led Ellis’ and Rihani’s to spend sometime in wilderness and visit Kumbhalgarh, a four hours drive from the Sun City for some leisure and pleasure and catch up with the history of Mewar region, besides solidifying our bonds.   An RV was set on the highway for our onwards journey. We all alighted and hugged each other to set the mood right. That is the time I realised that I had left my wallet at home. Luckily, the RV was at a stone throws distance. We told them to move while we fetch the wallet and catch up with them.   My eleventh sense starting searching for Mr Murphy. Hope he is not aware of our plans.   These days traffic police are active and lay ambushes at places where people tend to speedup. We were cruising at 100-110 kmph, when we had to take the first pit stop. An apology and a promise to watch our speed limits and we were off again crunching miles but within the