Life 365

Hi There 👋 This is Jay! I’ve always wanted to have a blog of my life, just like a daily journal and this is it. Thank you for stopping by!

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Love this tree 🌲 and the greens around it ❤️🌻

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Hello ☀️🌷 - 🌻 Sunflower

You’re pretty 🤣

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An attempt at fast painting 🖼

Intertwined trees symbolising growing old together. It’s another recreational painting for a friend, wishing her a lovely wedded life ❤️❤️

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Pushpanjali! Guru Purnima 2020! Surprise greetings and respect saying thanks to my Bharatnatyam dance teacher. Online classes are fun but we’re hoping to restart classroom training soon.

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Hello 👋 It’s been a good weekend here in Manchester apart from few hours of 🌧 yesterday night.

Today I thought that I can blog about my travel experience on train between Manchester - Sheffield in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and my travel observations as this could be something to read back on how life used to be and how it shapes up from here and also it could be useful for people who might be looking for tips to travel.

First thing on the list is to know that a face mask 😷 is a must to travel. So keep some handy in your travel bag. Also please don’t forget to take a pocket hand sanitizer. It has been very useful for my Partner and I.

Next thing to be sure about how you want to travel. In my case I travelled from Manchester to Sheffield with my Partner after 3 - 3.5 months of strict lockdown. I was quite hesitant to travel to be honest but we had to travel at some point to get some of my Partner’s things from Sheffield. Yes, my partner lives or I should say that he used to live in Sheffield but he has been stuck in Manchester with me after Covid situation and lockdown restrictions. So yes, we had a look on the EMR app for train timings and we booked anytime return tickets. If you are planning to travel on a Coach let’s say National Express, make sure you read all instructions on their website.

I should mention that the services don’t run as usual. My advice would be that you don’t aim to travel on a train or bus that might be the last service of the day unless you really have to or if you have a place to stay in case you miss the last train.

The seats are quite well distanced marked where to sit and where not. If you see in the photo below there’s a label on top of the seat marked “ok ✅ “, which means you can sit here and the seat next to me is marked “❌”, which means you can’t sit here. Hence why I started reading a 📖 book so I am occupied and also learning to embrace that this might be the norm for few more months or years.

At Sheffield in the trams and station you can sit together if you’re travelling together. So before you take a seat make sure that you read what’s mentioned on the 📝 note.

Overall travel as been quite easy between Manchester to Sheffield and vice versa, in spite of social distancing, using face masks and hand sanitizers.

I must appreciate the fact that co-travellers are also mindful most of the time. Something that I noticed while returning back from Sheffield is that trains 🚆 become a bit packed so even if there’s a note that one must not sit here, people have to take those seats. Probably this situation has been noticed already and the train companies might have a solution for this.

Let me finish with this beautiful quote by Shakespeare so we remember that there’s always hope for a better tomorrow and a better future.

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Was There Once Life On Mars?  Our Perseverance Rover Aims to Find Out

Our Perseverance mission is set to launch on Thursday, July 30 and could help answer many longstanding astrobiology questions about Mars. The mission will deliver our Perseverance rover to the Martian surface, and this powerful rover is equipped with a multitude of tools to study the planet’s environment and to answer questions about whether or not the Red Planet could have had life in the past.

In preparation for launch, our Astrobiology Program is releasing a new update to Issue #2 of the graphic history series, Astrobiology: The Story of our Search for Life in the Universe. This new, fourth edition tells the tale of our exploration of Mars in relation to astrobiology.

The history of our exploration of Mars is full of struggle and triumph. Mars is a dangerous and difficult planet to visit, with frigid temperatures, damaging dust storms, low gravity, and a thin atmosphere. Despite the challenges, NASA missions have opened our eyes to a world that was much more Earth-like in its past, with environments that contained all the necessary conditions for life as we know it.

Issue #2 tells the complete history of our endeavours on Mars, from the Mariner missions to Viking and Pathfinder to Curiosity. In this fourth edition, you’ll find  details on the Perseverance rover and its journey to search for ancient signs and signatures of life that could once and for all tell us whether or not life gained a foothold on the ancient Red Planet.

Perseverance will also drill into Martian rocks and collect samples that will one day be returned to Earth by a future Mars Sample Return mission. The samples will be stored in special containers and carefully ‘cached’ in a location on Mars where they will be easily accessible for retrieval. These samples will allow astrobiologists to perform detailed experiments that robots are not yet able to undertake remotely.

Visit astrobiology.nasa.gov/graphic-histories/ to download the new edition of Astrobiology: The Story of our Search for Life in the Universe, and read the entire series to explore NASA’s astrobiology journey to understand the origin and evolution of life on Earth, and the potential for life elsewhere in the Universe!

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🦋 Welcome 🦋

I’m Jayanthi. My parents call me Jayu and friends call me Jay. You can choose either nicknames. I was born in India and settled in the UK. I love to write ✍🏽, dance 💃 , and paint 🎨. I usually juggle between picking my favourite hobby. I find myself quite indecisive given options. My personality wants to explore and experiment and experience all sort of activities. Yes! I’m like a baby that wants to do everything that’s put in front of it. I’m still curious and excited when it comes to new hobbies, travelling, food and so on. Here, in this blog, I would like to share interesting events of my life, places that I’ve visited, books that I’ve read, problems that I’ve encountered and how to handle it, etc. Basically there is no structure to this blog and hence it is called Life 365. Come and join me for good reads about my life and events.