Our home garden sights, Solar water fountain, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Built in small solar-panel powered, totally independent, water fountain floating in the pond.
The height of the water spurted out, varies with the brightness of the sunlight stiking the black, circular, floating solar panel.

Coconuts plucked by a tree climber, in our home garden.

A coconut tree climber collects Rs.300/= per tree he climbs. This was the rate in the Month of August 2022. On a sunny day of he climbs 10 trees in one hour he gets Rs.3000/=. The price of a coconut is Rs.80/= upwards.

A leisured life contemplating our home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka, 17/8/2022.

The steel swing, which has seen our daughters growing up into adulthood.

Pillows and cushions left out to dry.

The ever-alert neighbor's cat, waiting near the bird feeder.

 

COVID-19 News, Sri Lanka

26th February 2020
24 hour curfew till 27th March. May later extend to 6th April before Sinhala & Tamil New Year.
Daughters are going to work at Karawanella - Consultant Anaesthetist and MOIC, Blood bank by Queenie's car.
No of Road Traffic Accidents's down with the curfew. They had a motorbike  accident during off  curfew hours between 8 to 2 pm. Part of skull bone was missing after accident. Brain exposed.Coma  scale 3. Transferred to NSU Colombo after wound toilet.

Bread and fresh fish are difficult to get. Tons of fresh fish landed in Negombo have the option of being thrown back into the sea as the curfew has prevented the transporters from appearing because of the curfew.

6.30 pm -  A lorry transporting a bag of assorted vegetables for Rs. 500/- each, was available for sale opposite our house entrance. A picture of the  bag about 2 Kg in weight and contents of good quality and reasonable price, is shown below:-

 2020

Blood donation by recovered COVID patient
Three patients have  gone home after recovering from COVID-19 infections. The first patient donated blood to the Kalubowila hospital. This blood is intended to be used to treat the patients in intensive care, undergoing treatment for COVID, at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Angoda.

27th March 2020

Some rules of the 'lock-down' 
Were elaborated by a high ranking Police Officer on TV yesterday evening.
1. You must walk to your destination.
2. No crossing of District boundaries.
3. Urgent needs in hospital allowed.

Compulsory wearing of masks
Use of unsuitable masks and their disposal cause a serious problem. Discouraged for daily use by civilians.

 Recovery of loans from salaries and pensions postponed by 3 months starting in April 2020.
4. Shops selling vegetables to be kept open.

The young Cobra, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

The Cobra

The Cobra is feared for its deadly bite in Sri Lanka but there is also respect for this reptile. My first encounter of this respect was when I was in Kandy in the early 1970s. An adult Cobra came near an outdoor water outlet in the courtyard of the house where I was residing. It was a hot day and the cobra might have come looking for water to quench its thirst. The lady of the house went close to the cobra and addressed it as ‘Nai Hamine’ – Lady Cobra – ‘there are children residing in this house. Please go away’. The Cobra slid away. The second incident was when I was in Rathnapura in the 1980s. I had arrived at my bungalow situated on a hillock, riding my Honda C90 motorbike. I switched off the engine in the porch of the house and put down my feet to push the stand of the bike when I heard a hissing sound. I thought that there was a puncture in the rear tyre and the sound was of air leaking out of it. When I looked down there was a Cobra with its hood raised and it was hissing. I called out to my wife, who came out promptly and literally addressed the Cobra, requesting it to go away. It quietly slid away. The video that I have posted was of a young cobra captured inside a bottle from inside a house close to our residence. The person who caught it had thoughtfully put a hole in the plastic lid of the bottle so that the cobra could breath fresh air. When I asked him what he was going to do with the Cobra he told me, that he was planning to release it as early as possible in a nearby forest. There was absolutely no intention of harming the poisonous reptile. A viper is vicious and will attack aggressively. A cobra will slide out of the way unless surprised. That is why a Cobra is  called ‘Nalla paambu – Good snake’, in Thamil.

https://youtu.be/-9odtNfmIWM

Road accident, Avissawella, Sri Lanka

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https://www.facebook.com/philip.veerasingam/posts/2559685817377023

Seethawake Regency Hotel, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

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Sqirrel eating bread up a coconut tree, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

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https://imgur.com/a/wxrSJoN

Avurudhu celebrations at the Seethawwaka Regency Hotel, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Avurudhu celebrations, Sithawaka Regency, Avissawella, Sri Lanka, 2018, April,

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1. https://youtu.be/CQ75Ii-J2ks

2. https://youtu.be/gQBpVgXAyZU

'Lenavara Raja Maha Vihara, Kosgama, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Child's walking trainer, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

"Nadai vandil' - 'Child's walking trainer' - a wooden toy popular in the 1940s in Jaffna. This was given to a toddler starting to walk. This was ideal when used on sandy soil. If used on hard concrete or a tiled floor there was no breaking action. I got this specially made for my Grand-children.

International Postal day celebrations, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

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 https://youtu.be/2lUadM5SB0o

Airborne metal detector, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

? Air-borne metal detector over Avissawella, seen 29th and 30th September 2017.

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