In an anti-social mood so didn’t go to a planned dinner with siblings. It’s hotpot which I don’t much care for, and really dislike the poor-quality premium-priced food trends that Lahore’s elite love and it would have made me grumpy. (I am already grumpy.) Plus, this way I can keep working. Also ignored some annoying […]
Doing the rounds
In the morning I met a couple of friends for breakfast. We arrived at the chosen breakfast place, selected because it had halwa puri, and arrived to find it shut. The friends admitted they really didn’t halwa puri and had only agreed because they know I like halwa puri instead. I felt rather bad at […]
Quick work
I was going to meet a friend, and saw this on the side of a bus. A couple of days ago all the senior PML-N members of the cabinet arrived in London to ‘consult’ (and pay respects to) Nawaz Sharif, which was pretty outrageous. And this bus was presumably either spending by the high commission […]
Genteel seaside town
Yesterday, we walked around the beaches and the town. The GF went for reiki while I strolled about. Whiststable is a tourist town but also the sort of place well-heeled people retire, so there are plenty of fairly expensive shops selling linen skirts, French wooden toys, etc. There are innumerable places selling oysters, and much […]
Bad timing
I chose to restart the blog on the most uninteresting day possible, one where I was working all day (and indeed late the previous night), didn’t manage to leave the flat one, and the only respite was to make dinner as it was my turn. I did discover the wonders of steaming, though, something I’m […]
Other people
We were invited to brunch by the friend of a friend of the GF. It was to celebrate their climbing Mount Kenya, specifically a bit which requires very technical climbing. It was a funny old gathering. Mostly women. The friend of a friend was a thin white American woman and her fellow climbers were two […]
To the city
This morning we left Naivasha. The taxi was late, which annoyed me, as I’d made a reservation at a fancy restaurant in Karen, but it turned out to be ok. We took a different route to Nairobi, a less scenic one, but also with a wider road and perhaps less risk of getting stuck behind […]
Pub and palace
Yesterday evening our cook took us on a little tour of the village – something he does for the backpacker lodge as well, so it’s a fairly well trodden route, with stops that are intended to introduce visitors to points of interest for donations, future stays, buying drinks etc. It was quite pleasant, and interesting […]
End to work
Today was my last day of committing to full-time work for one of my clients, which means that from actual 1.5 or 2x work I can go down to roughly full time when all my clients are accounted for. So, looking forward to that, though the large payments were nice. I tried the local interpretation […]
Evening stroll
The highlights of the day were: tamarind juice in the afternoon an evening stroll on the beach a tiramisu brought home to have with an episode of Succession The not-highlights were: a working day which caused some annoyance as senior management destroyed much of what I had worked on on the very day of the […]