Living in Kashmir: A Year of People, Places and Memories
Z for Zummary
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| AI generated by NotebookLM - summary of posts |
What is a Zummary? Just a summary with a slight slur after a drink or two! 😀
Ask what remains of a year in Kashmir and the answer is small sturdy things.
Two woollen rugs, still serving after forty-seven years and eleven house moves.
Two papier mâché bells that come out from the Christmas box every December, glowing in their original colours.
A silver bangle, still worn.
Three matching sets of garnet, amethyst, and moonstone bracelets and earrings, each in silver, bought from the silversmith during long winter afternoons in Srinagar's bazaars.
An olive-green medical kit turned storage box, a quiet relic of another era and some faded and water damaged photos now digitized.
Some copper and brass trays and these stories, reconstructed from what memory held, and written down at last, they are here. A world that no longer exists as it was, but remembered by the two of us who lived it.
In case you missed a post, or just choose to revisit.
- A for Accommodation and Arrival
- B for Bazaars, Banks and Baramulla
- C for Carpets, Chilli Chicken and Crossing the Line
- D for Dak Bungalows and Darra
- E for Embroidery and an Elephant
- F for the Fish Market, Fear and Friendship
- G for Golf at Gulmarg and Goats
- H for Houseboats on the Lakes
- I for Inglenook and Indian Republic Day
- J for Jeeps in a Variety of Situations
- K for a Kitchen and the Khyber Pass
- L for Life on the Lakes and Lambrettas
- M for Managing Medical Matters
- N for a Near Miss
- O for the OK Tickets
- P for Papier Mache and People
- Q for Quirky Tales
- S for Supplies and Suffering Moses
- T for Trucks, Trains and Tracks
- U for the Unexpected
- V for the VW and Cricket
- W for Wintering Over
- X for the eXtras
- Y for the Year in Retrospect
- Z for this Zummary
Thanks to all who read my posts, and to those who commented, multiple thanks.
This has been such an interesting series of posts, Carmel ... And a very clever use of the letter Z to zummarise everything!
ReplyDeleteThank you Jane.
DeleteYou've taken me to times and places I've never experienced. Thanks for an exciting journey.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining me.
DeleteI laughed at Zummary as we were intended to. 😃 I love that you still have have some physical reminders of a special time now lost but I’m very pleased you recorded your memories for us to read. Hopefully the two of you enjoyed your trip to the past.
ReplyDeleteWe enjoyed reminiscing with friends too. They were there two years before us but in very different circumstances. Love a new word! 🤣
DeleteCongrats on finishing the A to Z. I enjoyed learning about that time and place from your view.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your visits and comments along the way.
DeleteI like the AI generated image - it sums up the series very well. The past is definitely a different place, well done for remembering and recording your interesting times there. The souvenirs would evoke plenty of memories.
ReplyDeleteThanks Anne. Hopeful that our children and future generations might enjoy learning about our lives if only in that year.
DeleteCarmel I have loved visiting you your in Kashmir every day in April. Some days you have shocked me and others you have me laugh. Your posts have been quite a ride. Well done on completing the challenge
ReplyDeleteThanks Jennifer, it has been a good exercise for the old grey brain cells.
DeleteGreat job on the challenge!!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteAnd I bet those woolen rugs are valuable. I've enjoyed your series, missed a few posts but look forward to going back over them.
ReplyDeleteNot valuable and a little moth eaten now. Thanks for reading and commenting.
DeleteReal treat to read of your life in a part of the world I really know nothing about. Liked the alphabet idea. "Z" quite creative
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading and commenting.
DeleteI am so happy that I wasn't asked to say "summary" on Saturday evening as I enjoyed a few (or many) adult beverages with my brothers.
ReplyDeleteI had lost the power of speech at about nine.
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