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Pictures taken on-board the Fort Cochin Ferry.
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The Water-Baby
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Troika
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Pictures taken on the Fort Cochin ferry.
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A Separate Waiting
Picture taken at the Fort Cochin Jetty.
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Sunday’s Child
But the child that is born on the Sabbath Day
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.
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Monday’s child is fair of face,
Tuesday’s child is full of grace,
Wednesday’s child is full of woe,
Thursday’s child has far to go,
Friday’s child is loving and giving,
Saturday’s child works hard for a living,
But the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.
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“Monday’s Child..”, an old English Nursery Rhyme, was first recorded in 1838.
Pictures taken by the Fort Cochin jetty, in Ernakulam.
Saturday’s Child
Saturday’s child works hard for a living
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Monday’s child is fair of face
Tuesday’s child is full of grace
Wednesday’s child is full of woe
Thursday’s child has far to go
Friday’s child is loving and giving
Saturday’s child works hard for a living.
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Picture taken in an “open-all-hours” photographic studio and printers, Kunnumpuram, Cochin.
Friday’s Child
Friday’s child is loving and giving.
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Schoolboy buying milk for his family’s breakfast.
Picture taken by the Pattalam milk shop, Cochin
Monday’s child is fair of face
Tuesday’s child is full of grace
Wednesday’s child is full of woe
Thursday’s child has far to go
Thursday’s Child
Thursday’s child has far to go.
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Man with hand-powered, disability tricycle, pausing on his journey.
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Monday’s child is fair of face
Tuesday’s child is full of grace
Wednesday’s child is full of woe
Thursday’s child has far to go
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Picture taken on Palace Road, Cochin.
Wednesday’s Child
Wednesday’s child is full of woe.
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Monday’s child is fair of face
Tuesday’s child is full of grace..
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Picture taken in Palace Road, Cochin.
Tuesday’s Child
Tuesday’s child is full of grace.
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The seminary caretaker, kneeling in prayer.
Picture taken after early morning Mass at the Carmelite Seminary Chapel, Fort Cochin.
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Monday’s Child is fair of face
Tuesday’s child is full of grace..
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Monday’s Child
Monday’s child is fair of face..
Picture taken in Sri Krishna Cafe, Cochin.
A Time Of Fading
Fast-track
Making way for the vegetable express..
Unlike heaven, curry sometimes cannot wait..
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Pictures taken in Bazaar Road, Mattancherry.
Boat People
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Pictures of men in practise for the Nehru Trophy Boat Race, taken near Kottayam.
A Determined Perch
“Perch”
Its definitions include
An elevated place for resting or sitting:
A position that is secure, advantageous, or prominent.
Derived from Middle English perche, from Old French, from Latin pertica: stick, pole
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Elevated and prominent?
Certainly.
Advantageous?
Perhaps.
Secure?
Determinedly so!
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The Dish
Back in England, one would almost be ashamed.
I am now connected to satellite television.
Whilst Freeview and perhaps cable TV are acceptable in Britain,
Satellite TV has acquired less favourable connotations:
A peculiarly English condescension, with its roots buried somewhere in the class system.
But in Kerala, cable is positively passé!
Whether in the busy cities or most isolated rural villages, the humblest home is connected.
And the cables, like all power, telephone and internet lines, are strung overhead, along untidy, and often hazardously listing, telegraph poles.
For technical reasons I can’t claim to understand, the television in my hall can no longer process cable signals.
But a satellite system, with its own “box” should not be a problem.
The satellite man has made his visit.
Shaji and Anu have supervised the installation and connections.
My dish is sited, semi-discretely, on the side of my house.
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Just how a satellite dish copes with the monsoon may prove interesting…
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Keeping Your Head Down
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Picture taken in Cochin.
Liaisons Dangereuses
It’s a scene rarely encountered here in southern India:
A single young woman in the company of several young men.
All the more “shocking” as the girl’s dress marks her out as Muslim.
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Picture taken from a taxi window, in Ernakulam.
Good Morning
Picture taken from the seminary chapel’s steps at 6:50 in the morning.
Fort Cochin.
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Seasonal Work
The umbrella repair man
is very much in demand, just now.
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Pictures taken in Thoppumpady, Kerala.
Bringing In The Sheaves
The combination of poorly maintained roads
and prolonged rain
Does little to make harvesting any easier
For India’s faceless army of labourers.
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Pictures taken in Cochin.
