Hopscotch lines. I haven’t seen them in ages but didn’t realise it of course, until now. It started with a bunch of kids at the climbing wall in the stadium trying to warm up by jumping on and off a step continuously. They got a little antsy about doing it, so some us relatively ancienter ones decided very virtuously to encourage them a bit (I think it rubs off from the coaches and trainers there). Pointed out that it was very simple really... just like hopscotch.

Turns out they didn’t know hopscotch. It could be a guy thing of course, so checked with some of the female kids. Turns out they don’t know hopscotch either.

Saddening:o

I had to send some papers to Chennai. Nothing massively urgent, but I ended up couriering them anyway. I’d ideally have preferred to post it because the courier companies get all antsy about delivering out of city limits and you need someone to be available to sign for receipt.

But then I realised I didn’t have stamps. And I don’t know where the nearest post office is - nearest to home or work. A little discussion at the workplace did jig the memory a bit, and I now remember a post office near home. I vaguely recollect one somewhere near the workplace also but I can’t quite place it (I’m horribly afraid now that it might be just two buildings away).

But I still don’t remember seeing a post box either near the workplace or anywhere near home, and now I think about it, I can’t remember seeing a post box recently anywhere in Bangalore.

I am now contemplating wallowing in nostalgia over the one red and the bigger green (for parcels or some other such different thing?) post boxes that used to stand near the old house in Delhi.

Where did fullscans_daily go? I'm guessing suspended, but I'm a little clueless here on the whens and the whys. Any clues, anyone?