Midweek Assessment: March!

It’s March! It feels like I’ve been staying home writing so long that even a trip to the dentist is an event! This was my pre-Hawaii trip (always get a check up before traveling!) and all’s good here… I love my new ‘home’ station,...

Midweek Assessment — 22 Feb

Came down with a nasty cold on Sunday and gave myself 3 days MC. This is my incentive calendar. Gave myself an MC tape through my sick days so my chain doesn’t get broken! I only had one day of being really sick, then two days of functioning but feeling totally...

Midweek Assessment, Valentine’s Day 1942

Biar putih tulang, jangan putih mata — death before dishonour When 13,000 Japanese troops landed in North-West Singapore, Lieutenant Adnan Saidi and 1,400 Malay Regiment soldiers held them off for two days without back up or supplies in the Battle of Opium Hill. When...

Midweek Assessment — 8 Feb

I found a fun book in the library this week—The Infographic Guide to Literature by Joanna Eliot . Especially liked Miss Marple’s body count… And this—that’s helping me work out who’s who and doing what in the Mahabharata! Reading: The Infographic Guide to Literature...

Midweek Assessment — 1 February

I love snails. Beautiful creatures with their hard but-oh-so-easily crushed shells. Snail mate! (Sorry, had to say it) In a patch of (I think) button weed. I love those little purple flowers too. And here’s another delicate little land snail In the meantime, the...

Midweek Assessment — 25 January

I got my first look at the cover for Meddling and Murder, the next Aunty Lee book! We’re having some lovely rainy days (and laundry hanging on the balcony). No floods around here, luckily, but for a moment today I thought there was a fire in the forest reserve… but it...