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Beauty

DIY Box Becomes Best Ever Beauty Buy

By On Friday, 7 September 2012

I am not a desperately practical person. When we first rented the house we are still living in, I failed to spot that there wasn’t an oven in the kitchen (we got… Read More

House & Home

Trolley Dolly

By On Thursday, 6 September 2012

I never seem to have a $1 coin on me. I might have a $50 note, 5, 10 or 20 cent coins but for whatever reason, rarely a dollar (luckily I don’t… Read More

Day Trips

The Early Morning Fish Market at Jurong Fishery Port

By On Wednesday, 5 September 2012

A 2am start yesterday morning heralded my new commitment to finding out where you can buy the freshest fish in Singapore. Michelle, Milly, Vi and I (Vi being Violet Oon, of Violet… Read More

Food & Drink

Propaganda for Popaganda

By On Friday, 24 August 2012

I first fell in love with Popaganda’s old fashioned, no additives ice lollies when I came across them at the Hermès ‘Gift of Time’ exhibition held at the beautiful Art Deco Tanjong… Read More

Beauty

When Someone with an Empty Suitcase Comes to Stay…

By On Friday, 17 August 2012

In the old days when you lived abroad – as in my case, abroad meaning away from England – it was generally things like Marmite that you asked people to bring with… Read More

Food & Drink

Never Judge a Book by it’s Cover…

By On Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Wine in Singapore is expensive. To the extent that when you throw a dinner party people feel compelled to bring a bottle. I wish they wouldn’t as invariably what they ‘kindly’ bring… Read More

Day Trips

Why I love Katong

By On Tuesday, 14 August 2012

I have recently been moaning about my growing need to part with an enormous amount of money to buy a place I can call home here. The problem is that I have… Read More