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In My Hands Today…

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Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande

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Savitribai Indorekar, born into an orthodox Hindu family, elopes with her Muslim lover and accompanist, Ghulaam Saab, to pursue a career in music. Gentle, strong-willed Leela, on the other hand, gives her life to the Party, and to working with the factory workers of Bombay.

Fifty years after these events have been set in motion, Madhu, Leela’s niece, travels to Bhavanipur, Savitribai’s home in her last years, to write a biography of Bai. Caught in her own despair over the loss of her only son, Aditya, Madhu tries to make sense of the lives of Bai and those around her, and in doing so, seeks to find a way out of her own grief.

In My Hands Today…

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Murder in Steeple Martin – Lesley Cookman

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Artist and ex-actress Libby Sarjeant is busy directing a play for the opening of a new theatre in her village when one of her cast is found murdered.

The play, written by her friend Peter, is based on real events in his family, disturbing and mysterious, which took place in the village during the last war.

As the investigation into the murder begins to uncover a tangled web of relationships in the village, it seems that the events dramatised in the play still cast a long shadow, dark enough to inspire murder.

Libby’s natural nosiness soon leads her into the thick of the investigation but is she too close to Peter’s family, and in particular, his cousin Ben, to be able to recognise the murderer?

2019 Week 45 Update

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There’s not much to update this week. We have been quite busy with the O level exams and since last week was what the students called ‘Hell Week’, my whole focus was in the children and the exams.

The past few weeks have been quite busy, what with exams and then work which is also peaking this week and next before I can take a breather before our holidays.

There was and is a continuing some family drama happening in S’ family involving two brothers, one of whom, I think, has such a huge ego!

Anyway, have a great week and we are counting down to the last two week of the exams.

2019 Secondary 4 Week 45 Update

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Week 2 of the O level exams is done and with that Hell Week is also over. This week was the toughest of the whole exam period with back-to-back exams every single day and multiple exams on some days for both GG & BB.

So far, both say the exams have been decent and don’t want to jinx anything by saying they did well. Surprisingly, for an exam where they don’t get to take back the question paper for many of the subjects, in less than an hour, you can find the both the question paper plus answers online. For some subjects where they have checked their answers against the solved answers, they seem to have done decently, but for some of the other subjects, they don’t want to check the answers.

At the end of the day, even if you anticipate a certian percentage of marks, it all depends on Cambridge examiners and then the good people at SEAB who decide on the marks moderation. So you could do better than expected or if the moderation is not in your favour, then you do worse than you think.

Next week is a lighter week with BB having 2 exams and GG having 3. The week after is the last exam with GG just having 1 paper and BB having his last two exams!

Have a wonderful Sunday!