DIY Box Becomes Best Ever Beauty Buy
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
Trolley Dolly
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
The Early Morning Fish Market at Jurong Fishery Port
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
Propaganda for Popaganda
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
When Someone with an Empty Suitcase Comes to Stay…
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
Never Judge a Book by it’s Cover…
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
Why I love Katong
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





















