Eat It Raw
or: Sometimes It Is Socially Acceptable To Play With Your Food Remember when you were younger and you sat at the dinner table with your family and were served meat and three veg followed, if you were good, it was […]
Author: Ms Shallot
Confusion
or: What Time Is Brunch? I am having a weekend of extraordinary decadence as a result of two celebrations – one 40th birthday party and a baby shower for twins. People who have previously lived in HK have flown in […]
Dental Care
or: Mouthwash Is Not Always A Good Idea I’ve just had my annual check-up at the dentist. I say “annual” because that’s how often I normally go. For various reasons I hadn’t been since July 2014. It’s a stretch of […]
Read It In Books
or: Still So Much To Learn Unfortunately for my electrician, in rewiring some of my lighting, he needed to move all my books. I hadn’t sorted them out at this point since it was still in the thick of my […]
Mosquito Song
or: Now You Hear It; Now You Don’t Same as most people, I have a few beliefs that I have no idea where they have come from and have no reason to doubt their plausibility. I had one of these […]
Turn Up The Radio
or: Happiness in Paintings, a Speaker and Cooking My three day renovation continues into its second month. It’s not that I have added or changed anything. It’s that one of the people involved in the exercise appears to have over-committed […]
Guiding Light
or: Shopping in Shenzhen Friday saw a group of us heading to Shenzhen, just over the border, into China. Compared to how I’ve travelled there in the past, this was a little more straightforward. We shared two taxis to arrive […]
Eat It
or: Trying Unrecognisable Food Quite often I don’t know what I’m eating. This happens more in some countries than others. It sometimes also happens in my own kitchen though I know what the ingredients are on the way in. It’s […]
Normal Person
or: Merging People Thursday night marked the first time I had slept on my own bed since November 2016. I was expecting a great night’s sleep. I was a little disappointed. I woke up a few times in the night […]
Wild Is The Wind
or: That was the scariest typhoon I’ve been in Super typhoon Mangkhut was blowing through HK last Sunday. I didn’t write about it then. I distracted myself writing about something that has nothing to do with strong winds (unless you […]