Anindita Sengupta

@aninditasen (17021)

Raurkela, India • Age 63

Joined myLot 9 years ago

I am a freelance writer and an online English and biology teacher. I love to pour out my heart in my writings.

wwwwithenglish.blogspot.in/

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Is it really 4 years since I've been here?

Linda Mansfield (Snowdrop) @sprite1950 (30461) • Corsham, England 5 May

My life has changed dramatically in this time. My granddaughter is now 18, she's left school, working and passed her driving test, has her own car and a steady boyfriend of 3 years. As for me, l have a little retirement job, made...

new life

changes

granddaughter

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Anindita Sengupta Glad you are back. What kind of retirement job do you have?

6 May

Working with Government

Always smiling @allknowing (145082) • India 2 May

Getting anything done with a Government be it for permissions, or licences it is a pain. They will ask for documents whicfh we may not have and the work remains at a standstill If we need any documents that will take ages...

working with government

blockade

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Anindita Sengupta You are right. I am facing the same problem. In the my city the government contractors have started using agents to ask for bribe.

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I Need New Prescrip Glasses and New Shoes

OceanTiara @RebeccasFarm (94513) • Arvada, Colorado 28 Apr

And can't afford them. I never thought there would come a day when this would happen. I mean I have always managed somehow and even had closets full of shoes and clothes in my day. But things are so tight right now, this is...

necessities

money

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Anindita Sengupta Things have become costly nowadays and we find it difficult to meet two ends. I can at least manage my basic needs.

29 Apr

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What does plant based chai (tea) mean? Isn't all tea plant based?

Pitstop @pitstop (15085) • Australia 28 Apr

I saw this pack of tea at work today and it claimed to be plant based chai (tea). How is that different from all other tea? Isn't all tea (and coffee) got from plants? I wonder if this was a marketing ploy or there was something...

tea

food

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Anindita Sengupta These are just deceptive methods to sell products.

29 Apr

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Good morning..... the guests left last night.

Arunima Singh @arunima25 (90120) • Bangalore, India 28 Apr

Good morning from this side of the planet. . It's 8:20 AM and I am sitting here in my balcony in the fresh breeze enjoying some children and toddlers playing in the swimming pool. I got up at 6:30 after six hours of...

morning

guests

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Anindita Sengupta Babies give lot of joy but do drain all your energy. Your balcony looks colourful with those lovely flowers.

29 Apr

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Man drove straight through a day care facility today.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (43483) 28 Apr

You may or may not have heard about this terrible tragedy today. A man in Chatham, IL. (very close to Springfield, IL.) drove in to the yard of a day care facility. There are 4 children dead, and 6 more in the hospital, at least...

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Anindita Sengupta That's really sad. Some people are very insensitive now.

29 Apr

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Me and My Crocheting

MARILYN @Marilynda1225 (84576) • United States 28 Apr

Happy Monday Everyone! the week is starting off with sunny skies and decent temperatures. No complaint from me As many of you know, I love to crochet. I love crocheting and buying yarn second to loving...

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Anindita Sengupta I used to knit and crotchet a lot but now I don't get the time and because of low eye sight.

29 Apr

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Hot Dog!

snowy @snowy22315 (188921) • United States 28 Apr

My electric bill is going to be under 100 dollars for next month, as I am using no heat or AC. That is wonderful. Maybe I can start replacing the money I took out of my savings to buy the car. That would be super. I will also try...

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Anindita Sengupta My electricity bill will cross Rs. 1000 this month as my younger son from Denmark was home and had to keep the AC on constantly because it was very hot here. It has rained and we are feeling cool now.

29 Apr

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I Hate Weeds!

much2say @much2say (57522) • Los Angeles, California 28 Apr

I hate weeds ! I have been plucking out endless weeds from our yard and am not anywhere near done. This, of course, has taken me away from my myLot time . . . so I hate weeds even more. By the time I actually...

i hate weeds

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Anindita Sengupta In my city we still get to hire people to uproot weeds in the garden. My security does it. I pay him extra.

29 Apr

Change of hands

Always smiling @allknowing (145082) • India 29 Apr

Solitaire needs change of hands. No one in the family has interest as they are all scattered all over and their interest is not in owning a property but may be live in spacious flats or leaving the country seeking better...

change of hands

solitaire

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Anindita Sengupta I think you are staying in that house where would you move to if you hand it over to the nuns?

29 Apr

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Home made pizza

Always smiling @allknowing (145082) • India 28 Apr

I do not remember when it was the last time I attempted to make pizza. Whenever I did it I prepared the base as well. Baking pizza is fun I create my own stuff to put on it Mostly it is mozzarella cheese, scrambled egg,...

pizza

home made

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Anindita Sengupta I have taken pizza a number of times. Your way of preparing pizza is unique. We don't get pizza with scrambled eggs in my city.

29 Apr

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Easter is in the air here

Greenery8 @grenery8 (16599) • Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska) 18 Apr

School kids are on holiday from last Thursday to Monday (Easter Monday) and i hear them screaming outside in the parks. Adults or other people are making crowds at the grocery stores and i also hear them talking more outside, due...

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Anindita Sengupta Have a happy holiday with Easter eggs. I will be having fish on Sunday.

19 Apr

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Seven-year-old boy awarded by the police in Tennessee

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (109358) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 18 Apr

Franklin Tennessee resident Jacob Peters who with his aunt inside of her home on Saturday April 5 when his aunt suffered a seizure when she fell to the ground inside of her home and hit her head on the hardwood floor, Jacob...

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Anindita Sengupta I should say a child with ready wit that helped him to take quick action.

19 Apr

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Before I say 'yes', I want to know who else will be there

Judy Evans @JudyEv (352496) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Apr

We had lunch with Vince’s god-daughter a few weeks ago. She has three children aged from 14 to 19. While she was away, the older daughter was going to have some girlfriends around. When we made some comments about parties getting...

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Anindita Sengupta The children are really cute and sweet. Parties nowadays are becoming occasions to spite people you don't like. I therefore avoid those parties where I can sense negative attitude.

19 Apr

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Be careful what you wish for

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 17 Apr

Before I had children, I sometimes used to pass a playground on my way to work on sunny mornings and see the mothers, or sometimes fathers or grandparents, enjoying the sunshine as they pushed their children on the swings or...

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Anindita Sengupta It depends on the individuals. I love spending time with children and didn't work when they were babies.

17 Apr

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Dwarf Papaya tree - how to grow

Always smiling @allknowing (145082) • India 17 Apr

I have had experience of getting a good yield on my papaya trees but what I saw while browsing through YouTube is unbelievable. The video shows how to grow a dwarf papaya tree laden with papayas I will give it a try I love...

dward papaya tree

laden with fruit

how to grow

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Anindita Sengupta I do like papaya and did have them in my garden. But they don't grow well now. I would love to have a dwarf papaya tree.

17 Apr

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Virtual Gardening

celticeagle @celticeagle (173969) • Boise, Idaho 16 Apr

I live in a Housing situation where we have no room to plant except in a very small patio. But, we have to have everything out of the way for the lawn people when they come to mow each week. I am enjoying doing research and...

garden

housing

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Anindita Sengupta That's lovely. I have never heard of such hybrid.

17 Apr

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What is a woman?

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13543) • Ireland 16 Apr

Whoever thought it would come to this? Among all the silliness that people visit upon us, today a British Court ruled on the definition of what a woman is. Now I’ve known for quite some time what a woman is, but nobody ever pays...

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Anindita Sengupta Courts will hold the biological definition of woman and nothing else.

17 Apr

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Yay Me!

TaxiLady @Ghostlady (1700) • United States 16 Apr

Went and had a mammogram on my left breast...Happy to report that I am Cancer Free! Doing the Happy Dance!!! Tom made spaghetti last night..having leftovers tonight.

dancing the happy dance

spaghetti

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Anindita Sengupta Glad you are free from cancer. Happiness does give us a reason to dance.

17 Apr

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My chicken prefer being fed from the ground

SIDDI KIMPOLE @SIDIKIMPOLE (2090) • Eldoret, Kenya 14 Apr

As I considered birds as a source of some easy investment, I started with chicks, several of them. In fear of disease outbreak, I decided to have good feeders an drinkers spread all over my homestead. At first, the free-range...

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Anindita Sengupta If they are chicks grown locally they will prefer the natural environment.

14 Apr