A mosquito bit my finger and I slapped it away, somehow squeezing the poison inside me. My finger stung and swelled up and the pain spread like an infection down my veins. I was almost worried for a while, but then it subsided an hour or so later and not even the mosquito bite is […]
Now
Last night a message was received and this morning the GF flew to London. Now we wait.
Word hole
A few days ago a word fell out of my mind. It fell as though it had been greased, and every time I tried to pick it, it flew out of my hands and disappeared again. I could remember words adjacent to it, and a few times I googled them to remind myself, but as […]
Grumble grumble
I wrote a post last night, but it was on my iPad and using the WordPress app. And when I tapped ‘post’ it gave an error message and disappeared. Infuriating.
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 […]
Vivid cream
I’ve had vivid, yet uninteresting, dreams for the past two nights. First I dreamt that the gentleman friend had backed very gently into a parked car, but fortunately had a traffic policewoman in the back seat who got out and dealt with the matter. The most notable and memorable thing about this dream was the […]
No aam baat
The Japanese appear to have a variety of mango called ‘egg of the sun’ that can go for as much as 300,000 yen a pair. As a proud Pakistani I find it hard to believe that it outmatches a good southern Punjab mango, but who’s got 300k yen to test this? One article online described […]
Rays I have known
This is the first day in months that I don’t have a pile of work to do or think about. Not that there’s no work this weekend, but it’s not urgent. A strange feeling, hanging in between. Physically tired whilst mentally racing and feeling that there is something I should be doing. This is not […]
Garlic presses I have known
1. Garlic wheel. Requires brute strength and strong wrists. Doesn’t actually crush. Cloves need to be pre-chopped. Difficult to get garlic out. Difficult to clean. Plastic retains smell of stale garlic. 2. Garlic wheel. Actual wheel containing blades. Very small, doesn’t take more than a pre-chopped clove. More of a chopper than anything. Chunks of […]
A bore
This is clearly the world’s most boring blog. It lacks even the hypnotic charm of those journals that record every detail of daily life over decades. A definite issue when one works from home, edits confidential documents, lives in a place where there are few friends, and has decided to limit discussion of politics and […]