November 30, 2007 – 10:02 am
I all prepared to continue posting about Turkey, particularly the food, tonight, but in the meantime, your Pearls update: the guard dog is still heading for that cruise to Trinidad.
Pearls Before Swine - Panama Hat
Would it really take a chained up dog to dream of holiday-fun in Trinidad? At least he’s happy thinking about it…
November 27, 2007 – 11:40 am
Pearls Before Swine is one of my must-read comic strips. The friendly fierce guard dog is apparently going on a cruise. To Trinidad. I hope not Trinidad, Cuba, then the point of this post and its relevance to my blog may well be obliterated.
Pearls Before Swine - Cruise
Just thought I’d share, as I [...]
November 26, 2007 – 8:48 am
As of a few minutes ago I got the call from Lilandra that we have a nephew. After two nieces, we now have a little baby boy in the family. I know no more details and I am headed to work, in Guyana. The baby was born in Trinidad of course. Niece #1 has a [...]
November 14, 2007 – 4:08 pm
Antalya Cat on the Wall
I am in Turkey, where wordpress.com (yes, the entire domain) has been banned since August 2007. So I cannot access my blog, canno approve comments, cannot post about what would otherwise be an incredibly exciting trip, the furthest I have ever been.
Instead, I am like that cat on [...]
November 5, 2007 – 11:36 pm
for all the good it did. For all the good it can ever do, putting your faith in this breed of beings called politicians. Sigh. Will there be change?
Well, I’ve done my part. My part in this first stage anyway. This should not be the sum total of “political” action by the electorate, [...]
October 28, 2007 – 5:35 pm
Things I miss from my old flat…
I am making Hyderabadi biryani from Nabeela’s recipe at Trial And Error. Of course, by the time I post about this, I won’t be calling it Hyderabadi biryani, since the recipe will have undergone some possibly key modifications, some by choice, others by circumstance…but more about that later!
I am [...]
October 23, 2007 – 8:04 am
I am an Aunty again! My sister in law had a baby girl yesterday morning in Trinidad, who from all accounts looks like her father (my brother) and perhaps also like the little girl who until yesterday was the one and only niece, and the one and only grandchild. But I am sure she won’t [...]
October 19, 2007 – 1:31 am
It’s a bit later than I intended, but given a choice between restfully enjoying Eid at home in Trinidad and using precious hours and the family bandwidth to blog…I chose the celebration But we took pictures, so there would always be time to blog at our leisure. Lilandra beat me to it anyway. Darned [...]
October 13, 2007 – 2:20 am
Lilandra and Chennette are tired. But we had a good day preparing for ‘Id ul Fitr. Which is today. Happy Eid!! We made things with sugar. And spices. And even a special dinner for the true beginning of any ‘Id day, which starts at sunset.
It is a Sunnah (practice of the Prophet) to break the [...]
September 24, 2007 – 10:19 pm
I just returned from a completely unexpected visit to Curaçao, one of the 5 islands of the Netherlands Antilles. The Netherlands Antilles, although being part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is located in the Caribbean Sea, comprising 2 groups if islands: Curaçao and Bonaire, just off the Venezuelan coast, and Sint Eustatius, Saba and [...]