But first let me show you the answer to yesterday’s wildlife trivia. The answer is a Colugo. Also known (erroneously) as a flying lemur. It’s a herbivore mammal that flies (well, glides actually) using a membrane that stretches from the … Continue reading
What’s that greyish thing on the tree trunk that looks like a bit of curled-up rabbit skin? (Taken outside our chalet on Langkawi.)Clue: It’s about 24″ or 600mm long. Answer tomorrow… … Continue reading
Langkawi is on the west coast, up near the Thai border, a scatter of islands across a green sea. It’s supposedly named after the Brahminy Kite or Helang Kawi. Hence the statue. Here’s the hotel and the chalet where we … Continue reading
I’ve just said goodbye to daughter, son-in-law and grandson, so I am feeling a bit bereft. One interesting thing Daughter said while she was here was that she really doesn’t like to read writer blogs/websites. ‘When I read a good … Continue reading
So why no blog for so long? Well, this slow internet speed because of the overloaded undersea cables (the ones that aren’t broken) just drove me up the wall. I still haven’t received all my emails. And then we went … Continue reading
I’m still alive, never fear. Will have a proper blog on Monday. Have been lazing away on a tropical isle with family, exhausting myself by eating too much, sleeping too much, and doing the occasional run-after-the-two-year-old thing, just to keep … Continue reading
I am the typical absolutely pathetic author who has to google her name every so often to see what people are saying about her books. Serves me right, of course. Over on Blogpulse, up pops a blog entry by someone … Continue reading
We in Malaysia are suffering internet problems at the moment because of theTaiwanese earthquake doing something or other to an undersea cable. So emails often don’t arrive or can’t be sent, googling is as slow as a sleepy loris if … Continue reading
Here’s my grandson contemplating the anguish of responsibility that goes with acknowledging the existential nature of Humankind. Or maybe he is just looking at the Indian Ocean and wondering how he can cross that wall and get in all that … Continue reading
Feeling miles better, and the family is back, so all is right with the world. Because I have a death wish, I am going to post a couple of photos they took in Western Australia while they were there. Expect … Continue reading
