Author Archives: Scribbler
Summer Holiday (don’t laugh) 2005
Europeans will laugh that someone can consider a three day week-end the summer holiday, but unfortunately some countries are not so enlightened. Anyway, the Tokyo summer heatwave is in full swing. Hot, sticky and generally unpleasant. I grew up in North Queensland, Australia so this weather is <shrug> normal for me. Easy to adjust – … Continue reading
Travelling Mum – Email Dated July 30th 2005
Overdue for the ‘journal’. I was going to stop, but it is an easy way to let you all know the news. Still thinking about that notebook. I can get a new one here for about Rx30,000 ( a bit over AUD$1,000) but who will set it up for me? HHDL is away in switzerland, … Continue reading
Travelling Mum – Email Dated July 15th 2005
My last day at Mount View. I move into H****’s unit tomorrow. There are things I will miss here. I have got to know some of the other residents and staff – a mix of Indian and Tibetan and they have included me in the chiacking that goes on, from floor to floor and balcony … Continue reading
Travelling Mum – Email Dated 23 June 2005
The next chapter – Dharamsala has had some changes since my last visit, and not just the weather. The monsoons can start any time now, and most evenings about sunset, though it is fine and sunny, the thunder starts. It is quite eerie – it sounds like the mountains are on the march – quite … Continue reading
Travelling Mum – Email Dated 27 June 2005
Next chapter, then I should be up to date. Went to Kashmir for just over 2 weeks: Map of Kashmir Nazu and I went with friend with car (I cannot remember his name. I have to see things written, which is rather hard with these people). We stayed at his home in the countryside an … Continue reading
Travelling Mum – Email Dated 22 June 2005
Hello again. Every time I think I have told you all, I think of more things I want to share. Still it is easier this way. Maybe when I get ‘au fait’ with the computers – (or get my laptop), it will be easier still. It is still very hot, and my snowy mountain I … Continue reading
Travelling Mum – 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
Travelling Mum – a little background
My Mother was a child of the depression being born in Australia in 1930. Her father was a surveyor and the family often travelled with him. She can remember a time before electric refrigerators, living in tents with dirt floors in the back blocks of Queensland as she grew up. She became a nurse at … Continue reading
These things take a while..
Ok, the rest of the world has been blogging now for eons and I kept thinking about it. Finally did it and the trick will be to keep doing it.
Currently Reading
Lawrence in Arabia
Author: Scott Anderson
ISBN: 0771007671
Tiny Homes.