A Dogs Life

One overhears many people lamenting, that they lead a "dog's life". Frankly, I have no idea what they are complaining about. Not if they lead anything like the life my dog does.

Whisky

That's my dog "Whisky", or more accurately, my wife's dog. He leads a pampered life in my home, and nobody in my family will dispute that. The entire family is at his beck and call, and he will not tolerate any tardiness on the part of anybody when he needs something.

He sleeps in our bedroom, and I am normally up by 6 am to let him out. There are days when he decides he's going to sleep in, and if I try to wake him, to let him out, he give me this look as if to say " whats with you - it's still dark outside." On the days when I have had a good time at either the 19th Hole or the Double, will be the day when he decides he wants to be let out at 5am.

                                                 

He lets my wife sleep though - maybe it's because she is the one who feeds him, and he certainly seems to know that he should not bite/disturb the hand that feeds him.

                                                              

My wife has now changed his name to Whiskers. She claims it suits him better. My take on that is, it's because people started looking at her strangely, as she was constantly calling for Whisky, any time of the day or night.

Having a dog is endless hours of fun and entertainment. He is not the least bit bothered if you come home late, sober or inebriated, in a bad mood or good, he will be there to give you a very warm welcome always.

I strongly recommend everyone gets one, it's a great LIFE.




                                                  

Cold Turkey

Let me start with wishing you all a very Happy & Prosperous New Year!

I think I can safely state that most of us are still slightly hungover after the festivities over Christmas & New Year. I know I am. I had a houseful, over the New Year, with my wife's family staying with us.

It was quite wonderful having the house full of people after such a long time. Being one of 7 siblings, my memories of the holidays, was always one of the house being full of people and noise.

The Americans, who probably introduced us to Turkey for Christmas, have a lot to answer for, as the following pictures will show.

 

Carving the Turkey

Wrestling with the Turkey

I started off carving the Turkey the traditional way, (after watching innumerable video's on you tube on how to carve it) and finally resorted to the Mallu way - fight over the leg with all. Between the Brother's-in-law, we managed to carve the Turkey to feed everyone, and thought we had done a pretty reasonable job of getting all the meat off. The bare bones were then despatched to the kitchen to be thrown away. Imagine our chagrin, when the maid came back with a plate piled high with more Turkey meat!

Moral of the story: Always do it your own way!

The Mundakayam Club kicked off it's centenary celebrations with a spectacular New Year's party.
The  Club was rocking to the music of "DJ Paul from Dubai" ably assisted by our very own desi DJ's. There was a dazzling fire works display too.

 The 19th Hole for the golfers, and the Double for the tennis players, hasn't seen much activity, over the last few weeks, for obvious reasons. We hope to rectify that shortly, and will soon get back to you with more on that.

Till then, with best wishes that the New Year will see you at the 19th or the Double more often, and that the glass will always be full.