Shallot’s Big Year™s Out

It’s been a busy week that aside from work has included: A check-up and clean at the dentist; Our favourite tree at our home in Australia being removed due to it’s death, possibly as a result of a lightning strike; […]

Sunday is traditionally the day of rest. In an effort to fit more in each week this has shortened from a day to the evening. I’d like a longer evening. Friday night was my work’s annual dinner. With an 80s […]

It’s that time of year where I tend to take stock on the previous one and set some goals for the new one. The blog has been a great reminder of some of the things I have done / seen […]

We have been tour guides and hotel operators since last Monday evening when we met Mr Shallot’s mum, brother, our sister-in-law and their three children at the airport. Aside from the Christmas festivities and a bbq, we’ve been to Disneyland, […]

It’s been a busy weekend and the start of my holidays. I’ve been on my last junk trip of the season as it is starting to get cooler. Junk is a loose term used to describe just about any pleasure […]

We’ve just thrown our first real grown-up party since being in Hong Kong. Our excuse was a house-warming. We’re finally in a place big enough to have more than three people over simultaneously and it actually feels homey. Our last […]

“Chanel, Dior, Lagerfeld, Givenchy, Gaultier, darling. Names, names, names!” And they are all on sale already. Generally the luxury brand sales in HK are very exclusive. If they are at the lower-end of the luxury scale (can you believe there […]

This is a month where too much sport is barely enough as Roy & HG would say. It started with Mr Shallot doing a sprint distance triathlon on the Sunday we moved in, followed by an Olympic distance triathlon the […]

Last weekend we moved, lost our internet connection and have only just got it back today. Unfortunately it is a small market for internet service providers so we are somewhat stuck with what we’ve got. While the rest of HK […]

I can officially confirm that purple is the colour for this winter season. From Rome, to Florence, through Tuscany all the way to Venice, purple dominated the shop fronts. Whether as an accessory or a feature item, purple is a […]