I had my first bit of jewellery made today, so now I can feel like a proper Pakistani adult woman I daresay. I’m not entirely happy with it, and suspect I’ll have it remade at some time. It is stitched together of scraps. The centrepiece is a gold bead that my father found on our […]
Myanmar days
We have cancelled a long-planned trip to Myanmar as the GF has to save his leave for trips back to the UK that are an unfortunate necessity these days. I was very much looking forward to a journey through the country, but am relieved also not to be going. It seems very wrong with the […]
Another country
Now reading: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. Nigeria feels like a different world to anything I know. Strange to think that it’s set (I assume) around the time that I was growing up in Pakistan. There is no lack of striving and wheeling/dealing in Pakistan, but it feels less blatant there, though we are a nation […]
Quiet Sunday
Most of today was spent either working or procrastinating. There was a brief post-thunderstorm excursion to withdraw cash for the washing machine repair tomorrow, during which I made the error of buying a red bean croissant taiyaki to try later. This turned out to be hot so I had to eat it on the spot, […]
One page down
Slightly less interested by the Alderman book. The journalist is the most interesting character to me but far more time is spent ( so far, halfway through) with Mother Eve and Roxy, neither of whom feel like real people. Well,let’s see. I completed the first page of the comic. Played around with layers and discovered […]
Zap
The washing machine conked out today. Very tedious but a benefit of living in a rented flat that I am only inconvenienced but the landlord has to arrange for the repair. I say landlord but I’ve only ever met the landlady, a Chinese lady who owns several properties. I had for the past year pictured […]