Stuff
This is where I post about things I have tried and enjoyed or not enjoyed.
MsCellania – May 2023
So much for good intentions. As you'll recall, I decided to update my blog with these regular digests as a way of avoiding regular apologies for not writing for such a long time. The original intention was to produce a monthly update post but I've been so busy in the...
Garden tulips
It's been a great year for tulips. I thought I'd share some pictures of the display in our garden planted by our @Heftys_garden. The large raised bed in the centre of our front garden is planted with a different colour display each year. The potted red tulips are...
MsCellania – March 2023
I like gadgets, new inventions, trends, stuff. Spending weeks on the painful but necessary task of chucking so much away upon which I'd spent good money after the amalgamamation of Hong Kong and London households has not cured me of my FOMO but I am pleased to say...
Spin pins
A couple of years ago my hairdresser decided to chop my hair short to help me cope with the heat and humidity here in HK. I don't blame him, he was just getting to know my hair and it seemed like a sensible thing to do. It ended up a frizzy mess, though, and I've been...
Garden drama
We have been following the progress of Red Whiskered Bulbul chicks we found in a nest made in a potted plant near to the kitchen door. We've been a bit concerned because the nest was so low to the ground, the parents perhaps calculating that predators would not want...
Muji/Dior interface
Isn't it intensely pleasing when you find things that look as if they were just made for each other? I've had these Muji storage boxes for a while, bought in a quest to Marie Kondo my life. (I don't think the Sainted Marie would approve of me buying three nail...
Red whiskered bulbul
It's so long since I last wrote a blogpost that I actually had to log into Wordpress with my password today. Luckily I could still remember it. The world is awful and I feel angry and powerless and stuck here. Rather than spend each day in an infinite rage spiral,...
March
nfin le printemps! Except that here in Hong Kong spring is not a respite from howling gales and freezing temperatures. For me it's been the end of nights without needing air conditioning and the dread of the incipient heat and humidity. The March...
February
nd so I stagger almost to the end of this project with my penultimate entry, for February. The temperature warmed up considerably from January, though there were a couple of cooler weeks, and rain! Lovely, lovely rain! Now, I'm aware that vast...
January
t's taken me a bit of a while to write this post partly because I've had a lot on in the last week or so but also partly because I'm struggling a little with what to write and the repetitiveness of these posts, despite the January temperature...