From A Far Place

It would be misleading in the extreme to claim that the second part of Frederick Douglass's Life and Times is a gripping or compelling r...

Got back from Penang in time to get to the office of our service provider in order to re-establish the functioning of our modem. We've b...

Enjoyed watching the world drain of colour as day turned to night on the beach at Batu Ferringhi. And good food from a very pleasantly appoi...

We're very much getting out and about here in Penang. We got ourselves on the funicular railway up Penang Hill in the late morning and s...

Spent the evening sampling the considerable charms of George Town in Penang. The streets are authentically run-down, yet quietly pulsating w...

Took delivery of a new television set today. Now receiving Apple TV, but having problems installing the app which will enable Noi to watch h...

Very glad I decided not just to skim-read the early chapters from Frederick Douglass's Life and Times on his years of slavery on the g...

Enjoyed a neighbourly makan session at our place this evening with Susan & Mike & their daughter, Ashley. Good to catch up on the go...

Did you know that there are people who need to have the tv series Friends being screened in the background so they can lull themselves to sl...

Nephew Ashraf popped round today to help us make some sense of the problems we're having with the electrics of the household. Not quite ...