My English songbird

That's "London Bridge is falling down".
From just "Twinkle, twinkle..", Mira has progressed to new rhymes, though she sings them in her own words, incomprehensible to adults - same like Ash. They only borrow the tune from the original!

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Schools in Kerala observe the week following Gandhi Jayanti, Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, which falls on October 2, as sevana-vaaram or a week for sprucing up the campus. Students excidedly clean the campus - sweeping, digging, picking weeds etc - taking a break from their strenuous lessons.
Sevana-vaaram has also come to connote any rigorous cleaning process at home. Yeserday was one such day for us at home. I cleaned up the kitchen shelves while V cleaned the lights and fans - and managed to break the blade of a wall-mounting fan. Since he broke it himself, there was no harangue in the aftermath.
The maid and the kids, who contribute to 70 per cent of the mess around the house (the maid's share can be put at 25%) were by and large spectators to the clean-up. The kids of course tried to butt in. If it weren't for them, we'd have finished the chores in half the time.
End note: Church wasnt in yesterday's tour itinerary since I returned late from work on Saturday. And anyway we had attended the morning mass commemmorating the nativity of St. Mary on Sept. 8th, when we broke the week-long non-veg fast (nombu). We have been observing the fast for some years now.
And this year I tried to observe the 15-day pure-veg fast in the first half of August, but in vain. Half way through it I ate some chicken fried rice V brought home one night. It is difficult to observe a fast when you are the only person at home doing it and when you dont have great will power. The September 1-7 fast is easier because V takes it too, and no dead fowls or dead fish or red meat enters the house in the interregnum.