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Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Oct 28th, 2005
At last we come towards the long awaited holiday, we will drive to KL tomorrow and relax in our favourite hotel. I have been retiring to bed even earlier recently and trust that a decent break will revitalise me and thus make me less cranky, Alice is good not to berate me too often. I [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Oct 23rd, 2005
Halloween comes upon us, as does Deepavali and Hari Raya, and a short holiday, packed with fun, is called for. I should prefer the genteel pleasures of past ages, as above, to those of today; below you can see Alice and I at a more modern Halloween do, where she is demonstrating the reasons why [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Oct 21st, 2005
Did I ever mention (“yes, far too often” came the cry) that Alice enjoys tennis? She plays with different groups, Japanese and Singaporean ladies mostly, most weekdays. However, convinced that she has a slight “pot”, wholly insignificant compared to mine of course, she has also taken up belly dancing. As ever, she throws herself into [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Oct 10th, 2005
Well, by the time I was joined by wakened family the rain was just commencing and the walk did not seem appealing, so in order to maintain doing things together Alice and I spent the morning laid on the bed watching “Enemy at the Gates”. We both enjoyed it, which came as a slight surprise [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Oct 9th, 2005
This weekend the plan was walking at the East Coast Park on Saturday, so that Alistair could cycle, followed by seeing the orchids in the Botanical on Sunday (today). This latter being a pleasure that Alistair intends to forgo, preferring to frowst at home with computer, playstation and the like. Well, as I wait for [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Oct 5th, 2005
Alice was on the phone to Mama for some time last night as she was delighted to hear that two of our pigs had given birth, only five stillborn, which is not bad for first time mothers, and 17 living piglets. And two more sows likely to give birth over the weekend. How well it [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Oct 4th, 2005
Turning away from Singapore and back to the Phils, it is about time our pigs started giving birth again, Mama has reported the enormous size of those due and we can expect to have multiplicity of new piglets, squealling and yelling for more, at any moment. Rather reminds me of some of the expat bars [...]
