I’ve written before about my love for Taiwan, one of the few destinations that I’ve ever visited with few preconceptions or expectations. I guess, if anything, I expected to find a lot of factories stamping “Made in Taiwan” on to plastic toys. Because I vaguely recall that the Barbie dolls I shaved and tattooed as a child came […] Read more…
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again. Which is no frickin’ surprise really, given that horses don’t have opposable thumbs. Luckily for Raffles, who also had a great fall over the weekend, we didn’t rely on […] Read more…
As a child I, like most little girls, had a Barbie. She was tall and pert and pretty with her drag queen make-up and big bouffy head of blonde hair… which I hacked off before brutally mummifying her anatomically impossible body in small strips of gauze for a school project on Ancient Egypt. I didn’t […] Read more…
Both my kids are card-carrying members of the tofu lovers club. Me? Not so much. Being a fan of more robust flavours, tofu is something that’s never really floated my culinary boat. It’s always been one of those ingredients I’ve rated meh and one that I didn’t really think too much about, or of. Until […] Read more…
I’ve just returned from a week of gluttonous gallivanting around beautiful Taiwan. I know, I know, poor me. I’m hardly expecting sympathy cards or flowers. I also should point out at this juncture that this particular trip was a bigger deal to me than most and I honestly had doubts that I could handle it. […] Read more…