So there I was, lounging around on a sun bed by the pool at our apartment building, watching the kids having fun on the first day of the pool being open for the summer. I snapped a few pictures of them on my phone and posted them on Facebook, purely to show off! Next thing … Continue reading »
There is a reason I don’t smoke, drink (that much!), gamble or do drugs. I get addicted to things very easily so I know it’s best to just not go there in the first place. Plus, these are the reasons I can justify other irrational spending! But once in a while something unexpected, that I … Continue reading »
The morning after we arrived back from our holiday in Phuket marked our first anniversary of living in Hong Kong. I guess the fact that I’ve only sat down to comment on this a week later is a good thing but, one year????? Seriously???!! I don’t really know how to summarise how I feel about … Continue reading »
So, not counting last summer in London, Josh & I going to Bangkok for his football tournament or Dan & I in Shanghai for a few days, the time for our first proper family Asian holiday had arrived. After a whirlwind week leading up to our departure consisting of a third visit from Dan’s parents, Seder night, … Continue reading »
When I was just an impressionable 17 year old, as part of a family holiday in California, we visited Alcatraz, the famous prison in San Francisco. On the day we were there, one of the ex-inmates happened to be there giving a talk and promoting his autobiography. I can’t remember the exact reasons why, or which … Continue reading »
Last Friday morning I should have been helping out with something at Joshua’s school but instead I was stuck at home with Eden who had a sickness bug. At precisely 11.15am, I was sitting at the computer when I felt a weird swaying, as if I was having a dizzy spell or something. It … Continue reading »
Dear Joshua If you ever read this, sorry! Mummy and Daddy went to Ocean Park. Without you. And we didn’t go to the Aquarium. Or on the Frog Hopper. Hope you understand and still love us! __________________________________________________________________________________________________ After the excitement of Chinese New Year, Hong Kong didn’t really have a great deal of energy left … Continue reading »
Chinese New Year is THE biggy round here. No surprise really. It’s bigger than Christmas, Halloween and the other New Year, all of which are celebrated on a pretty lavish scale themselves. There was a 5 day weekend, the kids got a week off school, most Chinese businesses, certainly in mainland China, shut down for the … Continue reading »
At one of the planning meetings for the Carmel School Annual Dinner, held last December, I suddenly found myself donating part of an item to be put forward to the silent auction, held on the night of the Dinner. This was by no means the most valuable or glamorous item in the auction but it … Continue reading »
I haven’t been to the races since the summer I was 16 and my dad treated a friend and I to a day at Royal Ascot to celebrate finishing our GCSE’s. We saw the Queen, a streaker and I guess we must have seen some horse racing too but I don’t remember that! Happy Valley … Continue reading »
