Normal life is taking all my time
“What have you been up to this morning?” Mikes asked me via Skype from Bangkok. “I didn’t even get online until 10:45 today,” I told him, still stunned. “I’ve been changing diapers and emptying trash cans and replacing toilet rolls and tidying up rooms and making beds and cooking breakfast and doing laundry and hanging out laundry and … normal life is taking all my time!” “There’s a post title,” Mike said. (Apparently, not only is normal life taking all my time but the events of the past months have taken all of my creative energy, so Mike has started to point out...
Read MoreWaterfalls, tails, and other baby adventures
We spent the day at a waterfall yesterday. Between you and me I wanted to spend a nice relaxing Sunday sitting in front of the television and eating Thai biscuits filled with squishy strawberry sugar paste, but Mama informed me in no uncertain terms that I’m not going to get everything that I want in life exactly when I want it. If that’s true, I’m devastated. But then again, Mama tells me that dirt and snails are yucky and not to be eaten, so she’s clearly not infallible. She also told me that the mandarin oranges were “all finished” tonight when I know...
Read MoreFirst things first – an update from Dominic
Heya, Dominic here. Mama’s too busy to write to you all right now – she said something about Florence Nightingale duty, a lot of consulting work, and a whole bunch of fabulous new projects that she’ll unveil in time. My sympathies, folks. I know what it feels like to drop down on Mama’s priority list. Did you know she shunts me off on a babysitter for a couple of hours almost every afternoon now? She says she’s working but I see her up there on the deck sometimes with daddy after he gets home from the office. They’re drinking gin and tonics and...
Read MoreBhutan at the speed of baby – Day 1
We left Laos at 7am today and by 11 we were walking alongside a road in Thailand, sweating. The lady at the hotel had said the nearest restaurant was just a ten-minute walk away, but we were twenty minutes into trudging and there was still no food in sight. “How are you feeling?” Daddy asked Mama. Mama sighed. “I’m trying to be a good sport about all of this, but I’m not entirely succeeding,” she said. I’m not quite sure what she meant by “all of this”. She could have been referring to the two days of travel just to get to Bhutan or the hassle of packing (she says packing...
Read MoreThe happenings
It’s boat racing day here in Luang Prabang and all is beery, cheery chaos out on the streets. Boat racing day is sort of a fair cum rowing festival. The entire town closes down for the day. Stalls selling everything from ducklings to helium balloons line the street and the length of the Khan river is packed with families out cheering on their favorite teams. We were out walking the streets with Dominic yesterday on market day (a shopping warm-up day for the main event), and today we walked him down through the crowds to show him the boats. He wasn’t that enthralled, actually. The local...
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