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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
My grandson is two plus, that age when a mother starts to think of potty training. Like all good mothers, my daughter thought of bribery. She told her son that when he obliged, she would take him to the toystore, … Continue reading
Some more pix from the Imbak. These show us trekking to the waterfall on the Imbak river, and the small gorge on the way. Note the rather precarious path down the cliff face overlooking the gorge… And all the while … Continue reading
There have been some comments in the newspapers here about the problem of social imbalance in Malaysian society – women are now dominating university entrance to a ratio of 60:40, and on graduation, find that men are reluctant to marry … Continue reading