28 Dec, 2019 | Journal, My 12 Days
Three French hens Three hens unlikely to be French, admittedly, laid the eggs to make this Portuguese egg tarte (pastel de nata) that I ate in Macau today. I’ve never been keen on eggs but these are all the rage here in East Asia at the moment so it was...
26 Dec, 2019 | Journal, My 12 Days
Turtle doves, due to the strong pair bond they form, have been seen since ancient times as a symbol of devoted love as, indeed were dogs, of which we have two. (Do you see how this works yet?) Oscar and Raffles have had a bit of mixed year. On arriving in Hong Kong...
25 Dec, 2019 | Journal, My 12 Days
I thought I’d try and blog the twelve days of Christmas as a way of reviewing my year. I was going to try and do links according to the song but the ones I have are tenuous. Forgive. I have neither partridge nor pear tree to offer you but here instead is a...
22 Dec, 2019 | Events, Journal, Trailing spouse
22nd December 2019 We considered ourselves deeply privileged to attend Simbang Gabi, the series of nine masses that is an essential part of a Filipino Christmas. Our lovely MsJ invited us and so we popped along to the theatre in our local international school that had...
19 Dec, 2019 | Journal, Music, Trailing spouse
19th December 2019 I wrote about my Christmas carolling memories some years ago here when we all still lived at home in Beckenham, and we had no idea how our complacent life of relative peace and harmony would be shattered into tiny, stinging shards. (Yes,...