http://www.instagram.com/p/C08gEjRL9TS/ This is how the other half lives – in Orchard Road, Singapore. Do you find this luxurious decoration inspirational, aspirational or just plain gaudy? Do let me know, and do please have a Merry Christmas, with or without any help from Louis Vuitton!…
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Rubbing Shoulders with Royalty
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After a year of working my way through shows on Netflix, many of which I would never bother to sit through if we hadn’t been in strict lock down conditions during the pandemic, I have surrendered to popular pressure and finally started watching the series, The…
Happy New Year – fingers crossed!
I am a tad disappointed in myself for not writing or posting on my blog in approximately 51 weeks. So here I am, almost a year later, wishing you all a very happy new year again, and let’s hope this one is a keeper. My excuses are not only Covid related, but I moved house,…
Happy New Year
I’m not one for short posts or just posting a photo, BUT, here is a photo I took in my front garden recently. I hope this new year of 2021 springs forth as bold, fresh and beautiful as this yellow cactus flower. Let’s leave all the pricks of 2020 behind us… Happy New Year…
Rubbing Shoulders with Royalty
After a year of working my way through shows on Netflix, many of which I would never bother to sit through if we hadn’t been in strict lock down conditions during the pandemic, I have surrendered to popular pressure and finally started watching the series, The Crown. I’m no monarchist but I’m actually enjoying all…
The best years of my life
It goes without saying, I know, but 2020 has not been fabulous so far; it is not one of the best years of my life! I have been struggling to write a post about some previous travel I’d taken because, really, lockdown isn’t as creatively inspiring as one might imagine. It is impossible not to…
One November in Turkey (part 2) or Remembering on Remembrance Day
A million years ago, when I was a young backpacker, I found myself in Turkey, in November. I visited Gallipoli, and more. Read the rest here: via One November in Turkey (part 2) or Remembering on Remembrance Day
Memories of the first moon landing – where were you 50 years ago?
50 years ago today, a whole bunch of people in America (and NASA) organised this, the first men on the moon – Here in Australia, we watched their journey, their discovery and their first moonwalks in glorious black and white, because colour TV didn’t arrive in Australia until 1975. We crowded around television sets…
Travel theme: Frozen
Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go life is a barren field frozen with snow. (Langston Hughes) This week’s travel theme is Frozen. I was staying in London during the winter of 1986/87 and I was simply astounded at how ineffective this ancient but modern metropolis became – transport halted, water froze in the…
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