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Deadlines are remarkable things. They have the power to make you take your computer on holidays and write just about anywhere. My proofs of The Shadow of Tyr are due in tomorrow and I received such a lovely reminder in … Continue reading
Glenda Larke
Here are some pix to go with the previous post. All taken on Pulau Tiga, better known for being the site of the first Survivor reality TV show – but I knew the place long ago… As you can see, … Continue reading
Home being Kota Kinabalu. Just spent three days on Tiga Island (now apparently known more as Survivor Island). We used to holiday there over twenty years ago – when there was no hotel or mod cons. No tourists or ferries … Continue reading
My daughter on the way up Kinabalu. When I climbed Mt Kinabalu, back when I was in my late thirties, we had to take all our own food up with us. Nowadays they have a restaurant. And the food has … Continue reading
Came down from the mountain last night. Off to the Marine Park near Kota Kinabalu today. My daughter – back in the early eighties – was the youngest kid to climb Mount Kinabalu under her own steam. (She made the … Continue reading
Some time ago, Cheryl Morgan announced that she will soon be ceasing to publish her online zine and review site and blog, all to be found at www.emcit.com . Which I was upset about, because I loved the site. If … Continue reading
There is still discussion going on here on my post below on nuclear power matters. I guess what the anti-nuclear lobby can’t convince me of – not even getting close yet – is that there is a viable alternative. “Viable” … Continue reading
Imagine this. You are English and live in London and want to go to Scotland. You get stopped at the border by the Scots and they ask to see your passport, and then tell you can stay 3 months – … Continue reading
We give them respectability here. We don’t call them anything as crass as witchdoctors. They are bomoh, and they even have the gall to recite Islamic prayers and talk about the will of God. Give them some gifts, or a … Continue reading
The other day my husband, Noramly, went back to Kuala Lumpur to give a talk on nuclear education and public information at a seminar in memory of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki nuclear bombings. He is, btw, the Chairman of the Nuclear Licensing … Continue reading