Lake District. Wow!

June 26, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

My husband and I returned home today from a holiday in England. A much longed for break. We spent a little more than a week with my mother-in-law in the Lake and Peak Districts. And, three nights on our own in the New Forrest. The Lake District came up tops. Open and expansive. Rugged mountains, […]

Who cares?

June 19, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

Who cares? So how, indeed? Sister number 3 and I discussed caregiving for our mum at length. Middle August will mark the second year since the old girl became totally reliant on her children. Painful, difficult and enlightening was the conversation. We were, after all, talking about our mum. Who? How long for? How/whom? Where? Who? Sister […]

Caregiving

June 12, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

I had dinner with my classmates a few weeks ago. Yes, the class of SNC’78. I’m glad I did. I almost didn’t as I only had a two-hour window, and I didn’t want to be that party pooper who had to leave early. Particularly as I hadn’t seen this lot in a while. And, I […]

Google and YouTube

June 5, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

Google is my favourite search engine. No surprise there. ‘Google dominates the search engine market with a 91.9% share as at January 2022. It’s ahead of Bing at 2.88%, Yahoo! with 1.51%, Yandex (Russian) owning 1.27% and Baidu (Chinese) at 1.16%[1].’ I like Google. No question or query is too complicated, trite or unique. I […]

Streaming, and not

May 29, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

I am at Season 4 of ‘Homeland’ on Hotstar. My husband and I are streaming episode 11. Yes, I know ‘Homeland’ is not a new show. It was on Netflix for eight seasons, and has since been removed. It is, however, currently available on Disney + Hotstar, another streaming service that we now subscribing to. […]

Keep walking

May 22, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

I like walking. More than jogging, cycling, scootering, and driving. Jogging or running, I like but am unable to do these days. I can’t complete even a short 50- or 100-meter distance without feeling heavy footed, and uncoordinated. This is me who used to compete in the 100-meter and 110-meter hurdles at school and district […]

Mobile pain

May 8, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

My mobile phone died on me last week. I woke up to a blank screen. The alarm didn’t go off. I checked the power lead. Tapped the screen to make it come alive. Tried to re-boot the phone. Nothing worked. The phone had literally fallen apart. The back casing was off. The glue holding it […]

Fragility of life

May 1, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

Life is fragile. I’m not an exception. I realised that in 1985. The year my dad passed away. For some inconceivable reason, I never thought my parents or a parent could/would die. I thought I wasn’t like other people. God knows why. But, I did. I knew my parents were not superhuman or invincible. They […]

A late majority or laggard

April 24, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

I sit between the late majority and the laggard. Maybe even later-late majority and laggard. What am I referring to? “The technology adoption lifecycle that describes customer behaviour related to the acceptance of a new product or feature. And, it is divided into five stages or categories – innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, […]

Evil driver

April 17, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

I cannot forget that profile. Youngish, probably in his early twenties. An almost innocent face. Innocent, he was not. Why, I asked? Too many times. What did I do to him? I played back the route that I had taken in my head. No accidents. No stalled vehicles. Nothing unusual. The early morning traffic was […]