Astonishing beauty… A boat dwarfed by rainforest exuberance… Our boatman, Along, who put up with us always wanting him to stop and turn off the engine so we could focus on the birds…and who found us our last hornbill species … Continue reading
Have we got a record here? More of the hornbills in a moment…. I have embarked on the fieldwork for the project I am working on.Yep, visiting six National Parks or State Conservation areas is work, you know… We started … Continue reading
Over on Bibliobibuli, Sharon remarks that female readers will read books by both males and females, but that men have a preference for books written by other men. Or, to word it another way, they tend to dodge books written … Continue reading
The other night I returned late – almost midnight – to my house in the Klang Valley. (Yeah, I’m back in Peninsular Malaysia for the time being. ) As I approached the house, my headlights lit up a civet crossing … Continue reading
Back on line – bought myself another computer, in fact. So I now have two… never want to be without a second again; it was awful. Ok, so I am addicted. And to think when I started writing seriously, I … Continue reading
My computer – and I have only one at the moment – is in hospital. Being nursed back to health I hope. It had multiple organ failure, but happily its innards were still under warranty, so it shouldn’t cost me … Continue reading
Sometimes I am the alien. The creature that doesn’t belong.These photos were taken on the way back from Imbak…The first three were taken at our first stop back in, um, civilization, in a village of a few houses along the … Continue reading
Remember – we wanted to find the Bornean Peacock-Pheasant. Seems we went to the wrong place. The area where the last one anyone has ever seen in North Borneo was shot in 1996 (by the Sabah Museum) has the same … Continue reading
When I was little, my mother had a Singer sewing machine – a treadle one, worked by the feet, and it was on a treadle machine that I learned to sew. At highschool, we were taught sewing and had to … Continue reading
When I lived in Tunisia and I dug in the garden (which had the most magnificent roses I’ve ever seen), I was likely to turn up broken Roman tiles and marble pieces. There was even a carved capital of a … Continue reading
