Yorkshire, England vs. Galway, Ireland

So, time to blog after settling down from two weeks of travel... On the kind invitation of CH and DP, I made my way from Swansea to Richmond, Yorkshire on 3 August. At first, the journey did not go well. Until that day, my experience of railway travel in Britain had been fair. But on …

Summer’s Rolling Along…

It is now August 2017. In a few weeks, I will be celebrating the first anniversary of when I arrived in Swansea. Gee whizzzzz...  Time has really flown. I know, I know, I have not blogged since June. Has the novel progressed? Very hard to say, as again I modified my game plan in mid-June …

Making Personal History

My last blog was just after I had voted for the local elections here in Swansea. And now a month later, I am putting down my assorted thoughts after having my first, and probably my only, opportunity to vote in the UK General Elections. Like on 4 May, I got up early this morning, braved …

The Return

Greetings, one and all! I am back in Swansea after having been in Singapore between 12 Apr and 2 May. Those three weeks were bitter-sweet. Yes, it was good to see family and catch up with friends, plus eat favourite foods and savour those tastes that cannot be found in Swansea, after over five months …

From Swansea to Singapore

In a few hours, I’ll be boarding a plane back to Singapore, thereby ending one of the longest stretches that I’ve been away. I’ll be staying for three weeks, primarily to celebrate my mother’s 93rd birthday. Living in the UK from autumn to spring (Nov 2016 till now) was quite different from my stay in …

Springing

I know: it's been over a month since I last blogged from Swansea. Why the silence? Partly busy, trying to write/read/research. Partly inertia - just the ordinary of business of life (e.g. cleaning, shopping for groceries, preparing food, distractions from Facebook) takes up a lot of time. Partly there was nothing very new to write …

The Writerly Life

Salutations, one and all, for this first post of 2017! I don't know how auspicious/inauspicious, valid/invalid that I am writing and then posting this first blog of 2017 during the start of a post-Obama era, especially when hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people around the world were marching in support of liberal values. …