Life with cats, and other things…
Travel as an airline employee
30th August 2026 It's funny how context can totally change your perception of things. Children's playgrounds, which are always in garish colours, get my back up. They are hideous and often ruin a perfectly good view. Kids deserve to have them, but must they be so loud? The swings and slides of my childhood were … Continue reading Sacrifices
Plateau de Bokor, Cambodia.16th February1957 It has always been something of a mystery to me how a responsible driver can, under normal circumstances, end up running out of gas/petrol. Three times I have been in a car when the driver announced that we were in such a situation and on each of those occasions, we … Continue reading Koh Tonsay
Kep, Cambodia 1961 It may have been my Christmas present in 1956, or perhaps a 9th birthday gift the following February. At any rate, it was thereabouts that I was given the Kodak Brownie with which I took a few photographs when I went back to boarding school in Kep. . My first camera was … Continue reading Escape
Couvent Des Oiseaux, Notre Dame du Langbian, Dalat, Vietnam. Some old photographs found their way to my inbox.... On 23rd December, 1959 my mother brought me to this building, the Couvent Des Oiseaux, where she turned me over to the group of French nuns who ran it. My father's 18-month contract with UNESCO in Saigon … Continue reading Schools
Checking back, it appears I've often mentioned dandelions. I had been thinking that this year's crop was particularly impressive, but in retrospect perhaps it is only average. Maybe it is only that I notice their jolly faces more these days. . There is beauty to be found wherever you look in Nature, in one form … Continue reading Noticing
21st April 2026 Going to Bennington, we more often than not take Turnpike Road where we always slow down to wave hello to friends. Another white donkey lives across the road. . It's horse companion is nowhere to be seen lately, so it is alone which seems sad but no doubt there is a reason … Continue reading Strange?
30th March 2026 Today it is plain, flat and featureless, but grey skies often have character. And if not for grey skies, we would appreciate those fine days less. Slowly, the hills are turning green and already this morning I heard a familiar summer sound, one I am not fond of - leaf blowers. Three … Continue reading Old times
0652/30th March 2026 For the past few weeks, almost every night I have had peculiar dreams, convoluted to an extreme that makes them impossible to describe. Bits and pieces of distorted past experiences, people I once knew and long ago forgot, situations and places all mixed up. Dreaming is not at all unusual for me. … Continue reading A busy night
0629/24th March 2026 Fine days being few and far between of late, we take advantage of those we are graced with. The weather forecast is generally not reliable, yet we took a leap of faith on Tuesday, getting on the road before it was light enough to judge whether promises of clear skies were false. … Continue reading Road trips
Inle Lake, Burma 1983 The photographs were not good to begin with, because the weather was awful. After 43 years, they are discoloured with age, but they remind me of a country that enchanted me. My parents took me to Southeast Asia in 1956 and we lived there for 6 years, yet we never visited … Continue reading Strange