… Australia got its first female Prime Minister? I was walking along a suburban Perth street on the way to the bus stop to go to work. It was freezing, it got down to 2.4 degrees this morning and it wouldn’t have been much warmer than that when I left the house. I was trying [...]
Some people collect items of clothing/fashion, don’t they? It just occurred to me that I have a bit of a collection, myself – of traditional Indonesian batik sarongs. This picture (above) shows part of my collection. In every true batik, wax is painstakingly applied to the cloth to resist successive dyes so that wherever the [...]
Bought some mooncakes the other night. Talk about over-packaging! A special bag to hold the box. Multi-lingual labelling, in case you forget what you bought: in my case these are mooncakes with white lotus filling and a single salted egg yolk per cake. Each cake came in an individual box. Now for some reason I [...]