Author Archives: Scribbler
Travelling Mum – Update: March 2007
Mum came through Japan in February enroute back to Oz for a few weeks to tidy up a few family and personal items, get another visa and head back to India. She looked tiny and was probably too thin but she was as bright as a button and ready to go back as soon as … Continue reading
Feeling the Pangs of Mortality
It really is April 2007 but have been busy with other things so will backdate this to fill in the blanks. Luck would have it that we managed to get a few days off and a cheap ticket back to Oz for a few days. Lucky we did! I grew up in North Queensland where … Continue reading
Summer European Tour 2006
Late last year, we had been invited to spend a week or so with a good friend and his family who was planning to rent a villa in Tuscany, Italy in the summer of 2006. For various reasons that fell through but we had set in motion the prospect of a European holiday with Tuscany … Continue reading
11. Postcard Dated 14 June 2005
A picture of Gulmarg in Kashmir. Have just returned and saw the best and worst of it. Gulmarg has the highest golf course on the world and the Club is almost ‘Raj’. I miss our Sunday talks. At present more than ever for I would dearly love to live here and need to talk it … Continue reading
Sometimes the past catches up with you (Take 2)
The internet is certainly proving the place to find long-lost contacts. Over the last six months, I have been visited by friends that have fallen by the wayside due to all the usual reasons of our modern age – too busy, too etc. Both friends stem from another life where I was passionate about cars, … Continue reading
Finally! Rugby Sevens Hong Kong
Hong Kong Rugby Sevens has been one of those ‘I should see but never seem to remember each year until it is over’ events in life. Finally, as it came up in a conversation with a friend before the event and it was an easy sell to Shorty (birthday celebration in Hong Kong this year, … Continue reading
Travelling Mum Email Dated February 20th 2006
Have left all my (email) addresses at home and cannot bring them up on the computer although they are on the one at home. So will you please let the mob know. I will soon start my epistles but that takes time. The weather is warm. Still cool at night. Similar to Tokyo on those … Continue reading
But is it art?
How did these start and at what point, did they give up and just keep adding rather than tidying up?
Travelling Mum Update – February 2006
The letters from Travelling Mum have been a little quiet. The reason for this is that Mum went back to Australia in October last year as her visa had expired as she needed to address some family & health issues. The good news (?) is that she called through Tokyo recently enroute to another sojourn … Continue reading
Nagano suddenly got white! 2005
After a couple of week-ends busy in Tokyo, we got away to the Nagano house. As we crossed the hills from Tokyo to Nagano, the snow started. It didn’t stop and we finally got out of it as we crossed the hills back to Tokyo on the Sunday night. The skies dropped 10-15cm of snow … Continue reading
Currently Reading
Lawrence in Arabia
Author: Scott Anderson
ISBN: 0771007671
Tiny Homes.