Went to a school friend’s place for tea this afternoon. She and her mother live alone and were our closest neighbours when I was in my teens. We carpooled together. The house looked and felt much the same, but the occupants were older and less angry than they used to be. Age comes to us […]
Goodbye SEA
I was supposed to go out for a final lunch, but slept badly so woke with a headache and cancelled the reservation. Instead I packed, worrying all the while about luggage allowance (this turned out to be not an issue). Among my purchases is a slightly embarrassing one, a very lightweight wok. I wanted a […]
Fine fish
Had my blowout meal in Bangkok this evening, at one of the city’s best sushi places. It was very good, quite a delight, and plenty of things I’d not tried before, such as a baby snapper and seasonal squids and eels. I didn’t go for the premium omakase which cost half again as much though […]
Shopping
I went shopping for gifts today, and came back with some UV tops for various nephews and nieces, curry pastes and chocolates for various people. This was after a final trip to Benjakitti park, finding a new way there which makes it possible to reach the parts I like most directly from the BTS and […]
More annoyances
I’m in a rather annoyed frame of mind today, easy to take offence and feeling persecuted by everything. At one of my work places, I got very prickly about a proposed piece related to Eid being shot down (Islamophobia! I growled to myself), and felt my experience and expertise was being undervalued. Not something that […]
Return to Benjakitti
It was over 40 degrees so of course I went for a walk in the park. I left at around 4 and got to the park around 4.45, with a stop along the way to buy a bubble tea. I had planned to find a spot to drink it in the park, but it was […]
Morning error
This morning I made the error of drinking a large glass of milk as there was too much milk and it was getting a little old. Unsurprisingly, I’ve had a slightly unhappy stomach all day. I read another Ishiguro book, The Remains of the Day, today. I had actually read this already but remembered little […]
In hiding
Today was in hiding as the sun is quite fierce and I was feeling indolent. I made the mistake of having a rather large breakfast, of the crab with chilli and herbs from last night, with added egg and broccoli to slightly temper the heat for an breakfast. It didn’t really temper the heat, but […]
City palaces
In the morning I went to Suan Pakkad, which is the home of a princely family, now turned into a sort of museum of their personal collections. It’s laid out in a series of Thai wooden stilt houses connected by walkways, and the houses were generally the best part of it as the collections themselves […]
Just Wednesday
Wednesday is a full working day and I had to send an academic article in a hurry, so I didn’t do very much. The morning was spent on the article, which was about Ethiopian Christianity. I am quite the expert on Ethiopia having edited two monographs and countless articles on various aspects. Dashed out to […]