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  What a Dil Khush sight!

    LT COL NOEL ELLIS   30/XI/2024   It can happen only in the fauj they say! What? That’s what I would like to highlight. (With no offence to anyone).   Yesterday, we had a social evening in our club. A lively, vibrant, active, energetic, and spirited club. Once in a while, we friends aka course mates let down our hair, so we meet there.   One can catch up on family affairs and gossip. It is less bitching and more bonding. A couple of drinks, pull a leg or two, then have a hearty meal. One feels fresh and rejuvenated.   It was a DJ night yesterday with a ‘Retro’ theme. An interesting take. Knowing the fauj well, it was taken in that spirit. Single, married, children, serving and veterans came finely dressed for the occasion.   The formation commander did a very wise thing. To get the best ‘talent’ out of the people who look and act a little serious in life. One that stood out was the singing competition.   Let me confess, we have lots of Man...

Yellow Pansy Butterfly 🦋 🧡 DIL KHUSH 🧡

  Greetings to my Dil Khush Friends with flowers

  A new colour joins the Ellis' Garden 🧡 DIL KHUSH ❤

  LT COL NOEL ELLIS   24/XI/2024   Visiting a hill station takes you to another level of quietude. Though there is nothing much to do, if you are a lover of nature and enjoy absorbing the smells and sounds of the hills, there is no better place.   We as a family decided to take a short break at one called “Kasauli”. It was far from the madding crowd. Our friends had booked the ‘holiday home’ for us.   We were in a mood to explore with no idea about the town. We also knew that we would have to “puff and pant” to reach places. That did not deter us from promenading around the small town.   Our location was at one of the highest places, with the sunset point just fifty meters away. The setting sun was seen better from our bedroom window though. Ironically, there were people who kept asking us directions to the sunset point in the morning. Why in the morning? We kept wondering.   The first thing was a ‘milestone’ embedded in the...

  HILL STATION   LT COL NOEL ELLIS   23/XI/2024   We all love to visit hill stations. The reasons are obvious. They being secluded from the hectic and polluted state of affairs of the towns in the plains give you a serene, calm, picturesque and a soothing comfort from the humdrum of the city. Right!   This may not be true for every hill station though. With our population exploding, we are thronging these places like mads. We go there to litter literally, eating Maggi and Kurkure by the ton and throwing away anything and everything we don’t want to carry with us.   Be that as it may, Kasauli was one place where we found that there could be a fine of up to Rs 2500 for throwing rubbish. Good that it is a military cantonment and probably the cantonment board along with the civic authorities were implementing it. But aadat se majboor Hindustani, standing next to a dustbin cannot discard his empty packet of chips in it. Why? I fail to underst...

  LT COL NOEL ELLIS   22/XI/2024   Mom used to ‘christen’ pets and strays with some unique nickname which she would invent. We would laugh, but then her naming had logic in her scheme and theme of things.   She had a unique way of mingling with stray dogs, cats or birds. Mind you, those creatures understood and responded to her by the names she called them. How do you describe that relationship?   A brown bitch was ‘Bhoori’ a black one was ‘Kali’, if it was a dog then ‘Kalu’, a cat was ‘Kitty’ her kittens were ‘brownie’, ‘blackie’, ‘bhadrangi’. An animal with a limp was ‘langri’ or ‘langru’ depending upon the gender. Hen’s chicks were chun-chun and their variants, like whitetoo, blackoo, laraaku, if it fought too much, so on and so forth. Mom remembered what she named them. I and you would get confused.   The other day we were in a laid-back hill station called Kasauli. There was a ‘point’ which had been converted into a tourist attraction like most hill st...

  Monkey 🐒 gang in Kasauli ❤ DIL KHUSH ❤ THE ALPHA MALE

  WOODPECKER Small Tortoise Shell butterfly Neptis Sappho Butterfly KITE WITH A KILL HIMALAYAN VULTURE HIMALAYAN BULBUL GREY TREEPIE ALAXENDRINE PARAKEET BLUE WHISTLING TRUSH