(Continued from Quarantine Diary of a One-Year-Old (Part 2) A TELEPHONE CALL 4 May 2020, Monday Sophia at 19 months Mummy is going to the toilet so I follow her, but it is dark in the hallway so I just lean my head on mummy’s bum so I don’t get lost. Mummy flicks the light on […]
(Continued from Quarantine Diary of a One-Year-Old Part 1) CORY CARSON 18 April 2020, Saturday Sophia at 19 months I’m in mummy and daddy’s bedroom and I hear Cory Carson playing. I look at mummy’s computer but she has some tables on the screen so that’s not Cory Carson. I go to daddy’s side […]
Quarantine diary between April and May 2020 written from the point of view of a one-year old girl
Unsplash photo by Bruno Nascimento Here’s to all the women whose lives come in segments, who sleep in segments, are suddenly singers, nappy-changers, praise-givers, meal sorcerers, who are mothers to their children or another’s children or their parents, who loved kids before they had them and then had them and loved them even more (and […]
The Van Gogh Museum is an experience worth trying to get in three times for. Our first attempt was supposedly where my husband and I met for the first time, only that it was closed for renovation and we ended up meeting at the next closest landmark called the Rijksmuseum. The second was when we […]
1. You queue up, not line up, for everything 2. Everyone orders food for himself, never platters to share. You don’t share your food or get from other people’s plates 3. Instead of offering food, you offer to make hot drinks for them 4. Tea is always, always with milk 5. The following are food: […]
My father has just turned 70, and whilst I wonder what happened to all those years, I remember somehow how he was in the years he worked for a single company for nearly 50 years before his retirement 5 years ago. Tatay was a humble electrician who took over his father’s job when the latter […]
What an honour to have met Candy Gourlay, Filipino author in the UK and an incredible storyteller. A former journalist who moved to the UK over 20 years ago, Candy has published two novels for kids/teens called “Tall Story” and “Shine“, but not without having gone through several rejections first from publishers. She talked about […]
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