Heart's Desire

Wow, don't post for a bit and those photos really pile up! We've been away on a brief driving holiday to Sydney and back.  Saw loads...

Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan: A nod to my growing hosta obsession. 

I never realised before just how important an expanse of green is to the Australian psyche until we were unable to locate one for our babes ...

1. Sri Lankans like to use place-mats and coasters. 2. Meals are universally enormous. 3. Double bed sheets must be nearly impossible to f...

Blogging world, I have not forgotten you, but the Internet at our house has forgotten how to work properly over the last week: today it deci...

OK, here is part two of the holiday photos, showcasing our time in Bali. Well, sort of anyway. I was a bit ambivalent about Bali, in the tru...

Even though Singapore and Thailand are only a small fraction of the photos that I took - Bali getting the Lion's share - I've decide...

We had tried to call the car hire office to 1. ask them if they would try to put the credit card payment through, now that we had resolved t...

It's Loi Krathong here, one of the major festivals in Thailand. ' Loi' means 'to float' and a ' Krathong ' is...

The other night, as we lay in our enormous bed in our luxurious resort, just as I was dozing off to sleep, the Earth quivered and trembled b...

It's a whole new world. An oasis of frangipani trees, pink and apricot bouganvilleas, and red hibiscus; of enormous white towels, smooth...

'I don't want to say it,' Chef D said. 'Say what?' I asked. 'That they're taking the piss.' That was our ...

So this is a bit of a silly post today. I have a new toy and I am trying to learn how to use it! It's a tablet of the android variety an...