More from the jungle
A few things have occurred to me – or things have simply occurred – since my earlier piece from Mutiara Taman Negara....
A few things have occurred to me – or things have simply occurred – since my earlier piece from Mutiara Taman Negara....
Who needs an alarm when the imam’s resonant call to prayer reverberates across the river at 6am? He usually coaxes me out...
So Gary Barlow didn’t shampoo his hair for 14 years. Sensible chap. I haven’t applied detergents and chemicals of any sort to...
‘Beautiful soup so rich and green, waiting in a hot tureen sings Lewis Carroll’s lugubrious Mock Turtle in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland....
Let’s hear it for soya beans, sometimes called endame beans. And I don’t mean dreadful processed stuff pretending to be something else....
It’s the exploitative, expensive, tacky season of tat. St Valentine has a lot to answer for. “Valentine’s Day” is commercially driven codswallop....
Ok, so we all want to recycle as responsibly as possible but, however hard you try, 21st century life generates a lot...
As many of you know, Mr E and I have just moved house. We’ve downsized, sold a biggish house in a...