I remember now why I stopped writing this blog. The day to day was too tedious to record, while the interesting was too interesting to bother with opening up my laptop and writing about it. So, today, a cracked earthenware oven dish. It didn’t even crack today, that was a few weeks ago, but today […]
New arrangements
There are many new arrangements in place since I last posted. Most importantly, I have purchased a very small wooden desk and a very large wooden chair. Actually, most importantly we have purchased a bed and mattress that is actually comfortable, but after that, this desk and chair are the greatest improvement to my well […]
Return to work
It was the quietest winter I’ve had in a while, I think, in terms of taking time off and not having work to do. On the weekend the GF and went for a very pleasant walk in the Belgrad forest. The first part of it, which was on an established trail, we passed about a […]
This morning
This morning we took the ferry to Kadikoy and then a taxi to the airport, then to fly off to Dubai. Dubai is further than I would have thought – though of course closer to Lahore and just across the water from Karachi yet a different world. The last time I came to Dubai was […]
Quite a day
A very very long day indeed. My flight was at a truly terrible time, at 6 in the morning and, unusually, I had the good sense to sleep for a couple of hours before leaving for the airport at 3.30. A later departure than usual to Lahore airport’s hellzone as my brother whose love language, […]
Uses of AI
Met one of my odder relatives, someone who has a life-limiting illness which has made him more peculiar but he was always a bit odd. He told me he is using ChatGPT to write letters for his newborn granddaughter to read after he is dead. The prompt he gives is ‘write a letter to my […]
Floods of guests
A number of guests today and yesterday, including friends and including an unexpected friend of my mother who had heard we were all in town and just turned up, stayed for hours, ate lunch, left and nearly caused a rift with a neighbour who rang to demand why she hadn’t been told about the visitor. […]
Full day
Our only full day of the four of us plus my father together. Most of it was spent with others actually, as first one aunt arrived with her grandchild (a rather odd looking creature, like the baby in Spirited Away, but a sweet and seemingly ordinary child with a penchant for wearing backpacks, and then […]
Gathering forces
In Lahore. The flight was long and, rather to my annoyance, my seat was one of the bulkhead ones, which are much desired by the longer limbed, and pay a premium for them. I didn’t pay a premium, but the plane was changed so found myself assigned a far more expensive seat than I’d have […]
Sudden decision
This morning I woke at 5 to finish some work and just as I completed it at around 7, I got a call from my father, saying that my siblings were all going to be in Lahore this weekend, why don’t I come too? I looked at tickets, they were very expensive, and then there’s […]