06-Apr-2025
We're still enjoying pottering around our new flat and our new neighbourhood:
Our views continue to be impressively varied
In case you're wondering about the end of the kingfisher story trailed at the top, it wasn't good for the mantis...
Walking the roads near our new pad, you'd think you were out in the country
One of the sad casualties of the recent stormy weather
So this is all very domestic. However, we're still spending a lot of the working day out. Partly it's because we're avoiding the noise; partly it's because we have long-winded jobs to get through. For example, giving the UK pension people your new details means:
-- going to a cafe to write your change-of-address letters (no, you can't do it online...);
-- going to your favourite copiers to print out the letters;
-- going to your favourite old-fashioned stationary shop to buy sticky tape (because you've remembered to bring envelopes and a pen, but you've forgotten that the sticky flap on the envelope is actually not that sticky);
-- going to another cafe while you sign the letters and address the envelope;
-- going to the Post Office to post the letters.
And there's another hour and a half of your life gone...
What this kind of lifestyle does mean, on the other hand, is that the range of drinks that the week has encompassed is extensive:
Back to Chas to try a) the upper floor; and b) the kombucha (both good)
A brownie from Flat (to go with their nice coffee). The smidgeon of pink salt just rounds it off beautifully
A new one for us at Green Heights mall
Earl Grey and smoked duck quiche
Just some of the range on offer at Borneo Tuak Korner
Toasting our new place with terong asam tuak...
You probably don't feel you're getting your money's worth with Purple Tern at the moment. We've gone from roaming Europe to dividing our time between cafes and home.
This guy is finding it all terribly dull...
I will try to do better next week.