30 in 2005

 - Before my life in the UK I had never heard the phrase 'lie-in'. Once I understood that it just meant sleeping/ staying supine/ in...

One of my favorite authors died this week. Margaret Forster. She had such a wonderful way with words, letting the reader right into the room...

That is the Mandarin greeting in the title. This is the Cantonese:  Gong Hei Fat Choy Hong Kong is something special at Chinese New Year. Th...

I'm not sure when I began to care what my phone cover looked like. I remember being all fine with the tacky-but-sturdy plastic cover tha...

Here is one I set up when Kid was 2 and haven't yet stopped 4 years later.  1. Every day when he comes home from school (and before that...

I bought these cotton and hemp shoes for a pittance in Chatuchak market in Bangkok this summer. My sil got the same pair and proceeded to we...

What better way to begin a month of writing with something auspicious? In a short week we will be celebrating Chinese New Year, that most ha...

January has sped by. Literally sped by. It was a month of two halves for me. The first half was the lovely (second part) of the India holida...

It's here, this New Year, 2016; bright and happy if greeting cards and whatsapp messages are to be believed. We are back from our wonder...

1. Back to points as I seem to function well within them. This is my last post in what has been a big and busy year. 2. I'm in Mumbai af...

I start and then I cannot stop. Here is what we have been up to where Christmas is concerned: Ok this is not me but our building lobby. It a...

...I get lazy. List of random things: 1. My aunt and uncle celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. We couldn't celebrate with them as...

In my childhood, and this is not just from my overactive imagination, my parents Nik and I sat down to eat at 6.30pm every weeknight. Of cou...

Chennai is quite possibly my favourite Indian city. And the floods are ravaging it as we watch helplessly from afar. My relatives have all m...

It began as a lark. I had read somewhere that colouring was the new 'thing' for adults and I thought it was a good 'joke' pr...

Last day of November. I'm tempted to take a month off and not write a smidge. No one is more surprised that I posted Every. Single. Day ...

1. Crazy weather swings saw us all back in shorts and tshirts again today. Some reprieve from the awful and disheartening shopping trip of y...

Saturday. Grumpy. Earlier I couldn't find clothes for fat people. Now turns out my feet are fat too. Lady in shop laughed when I mention...

It wasn't as I imagined it would be and that is mainly because I missed most of it.  Five years ago today my brother, Nik, got married. ...

Kid had a Thanksgiving meal in school yesterday. Of course he has took (and ate) a back up bread and butter sandwich (as recommended by the ...