I mentioned some weeks back the new red rose I had obtained for the bed next to the smaller pond on the balcony. There had been two blossoms on it when I put it in, but one had collapsed on the way to Colombo. But the other blossom looked splendid, and before I went away last month there were several ...
Sri Lanka Badminton is set to host its second international tournament of the month, the Li Ning Sri Lanka International Series, from February 13th to 18th at the Dadella Sports Complex in Galle. Endorsed by the Badminton World Federation, the event is anticipated to be a highlight of badminton talent and competition, featuring 303 athletes from 16 nations. >>Viren Nettasinghe ...
Sri Lanka’s commercial capital is a convenient and exciting first or last top on your tour, and what better way to begin or end your trip than with a memorable meal? Browse this list of the top 10 cafés and restaurants in Colombo to find the atmosphere and cuisine that best suits you. Nuga Gama For a taste of ...
The bigger pond on the balcony also had, after the inroads of predators in December, to have protective netting placed all round it. This was easier than for the small pond, since much of the bigger one is under the main roof of the house. Still, Kithsiri put up netting all round the wall of the pond, to stop the ...
I showed last week the roses this month brought me on the east side of the roof garden. But there were lots elsewhere up there too. In the bed in the middle one of the earliest plants I had put there had a lovely pink to purple blossom, and I show it full on to begin with, and at the ...
Last week’s post was chaotic, with the third paragraph being repeated, and then the next two also, at the end. How this happened I have no idea, unless it is that the computer thought it should meet the word count of 500 I had earlier set myself, having failed to register that I thought shorter posts better for this year, ...
Back after two weeks to the Roof Garden, which has continued to flourish. I was away for ten days, and when I got back it was to find another host of roses, with blossoms aplenty visible from the balcony yesterday morning, in the pots and the beds of the eastern edge by the stairway. The first picture here shows the ...
The things I never said The things you never heard Turned days into years The things you said you would But never did Turned into bricks With which I built a fortress around my heart And after the final brick was laid I could no longer see you Only the time you stole from me Remain as Karmic debt ...
I wrote last week of the tragedy that befell the fish in the tank by the dining room, which I had looked at with such pride just a few days earlier, its eight fish darting and gliding along in great elegance. That tragedy followed not long after the nights of the predators, up on the balcony, and also I noticed ...
Beauty What beauty in camps? I sit in my favourite chairlistening to Beethoven’s last sonata,slient breezesin time.to the music.My world creates a sonata The other shatters all possibility of one. Guarded, malnourished;the beauty of rescue: possible?loudspeakers are silent.Waiting for a pass, a nod,family member to utter their name,to go back hometo farm, toil, feed the earthfeel the breeze of ...
I looked at two of the beds on the balcony last week. There are three others, or rather two beds and a pot. In the last are white roses, a tall plant that has not failed thus far to produce blossoms, one or two every month or so. They are perfectly formed roses, and I show first today a close ...
