Monkeys at play, Meepe, Sri Lanka.

They play havoc with plantations. Coconut young nuts, rambuttan fruits are targets for pillaging by these wild denizens.

Laughing lassies, Gampaha, Sri Lanka.

I took this picture on a sunny day in a paddy field at Gampaha.

Flowers in our garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Grand-son watching TV, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

My Grand-son needs two arm-chairs to watch TV.

'Gaduguda' and 'Arecanut, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

'Gaduguda' fruit fleshy and sour relished by the yougsters.

Flowers of the 'Arecanut' tree.

Welcome to the new Principal - Ms.Mercy Galagama, Ferguson High School, Rathnapura, Sri Lanka.

The old 'Assembly Hall where the welcome by the Old Girls Association was held.

Mercy in her school days - leading the School Band - Photo by Ms. S.R.Veerasingam.

Assembly Hall, Ferguson High School, Rathnapura, Sri Lanka.

The front entrance of the 'Assembly Hall'. This hall was there in 1946 when I was a boarder in the males hostel in this school. It still stands proud.

The rear entrance of the 'Assembly Hall'

Inside the 'Assembly Hall'.

 

The corner of the 'Assembly Hall' where the 2nd standard had its classes in 1946. I was in this class and there might have been ten students in the class at that time.

The world's first female Prime Minister Madam Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who hailed from Balangoda, attended this School. Her daughter Madam Chandrika Bandaranaike who was a President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, unveiled a plaque near the entrance to the assembly hall.