Where does the money come from? This is not a country rich in oil or minerals but there are Bentleys and Rolls Royces for sale and being driven about on the roads of Phnom Penh. This is proper ostentatious wealth, completely different to the branded clothing that everyone wears, because when Gucci branded clothes are… Continue reading Impressions of Cambodia – 1. Phnom Penh
Author: michellekstone
Australian-born London-dweller. I love books, travel, my garden, my cat, my husband and sunshine but not necessarily in that order.
The Rise and Fall (24.2022)
Last week was a long, tough week. Work ramped up with a big task landing on my desk on Monday morning with a Wednesday deadline. This task took up all of my Monday, preparing a first draft of the document and sending it out to the team who needed to review and add to it.… Continue reading The Rise and Fall (24.2022)
Back into it (23.2022)
I hope you’ll excuse my recent burst of silence. I’ve been back from Australia for a while but was not much motivated to write last weekend, so you’ll miss all of my insightful comments on the Queen’s Jubilee. Actually I didn’t watch any of the pageantry or concerts or… any of it. We celebrated the… Continue reading Back into it (23.2022)
Bones of grief (20.22)
My last post indicated some kind of travel was in my future. It turned out that travel was a lot closer than I expected. The day after my last post was published was a Monday. I was in the office when I got word from my family that my mother had passed away. It wasn't… Continue reading Bones of grief (20.22)
How to be a winner and loser at the same time (19.22)
Good and bad news this week. Let's start with this week’s bad news: I lost a friend. Not a real friend, but someone whose voice I have listened to intently over the last two years. Someone whose relaxing tone helped me feel calm and focussed; someone who made me laugh; someone who helped me calm… Continue reading How to be a winner and loser at the same time (19.22)
Gruntled and Gormful (18.22)
Wordplay Isn't the English language a funny thing? We were discussing this week the idea of being gormless. It's one of those anti-words that doesn't really have a postive version. You can be gormless but not gormful. Why is that? Why does gormless persist as a word but gormful doesn't? And what it gorm? But… Continue reading Gruntled and Gormful (18.22)
May I? May 1 (17.2022)
Back from holidays and in need of some catching up with this blog and with all my writing in general. I'm carrying a lot of thoughts around in my head and I really need to start putting them down on real or virtual paper. I need to get back onto a more regular writing routine,… Continue reading May I? May 1 (17.2022)
Happy New Year
I'm a little behind with posts due to being on holiday so here instead is a short story inspired by my trip. It was Jack's idea to come to South East Asia. He had bought himself a large midlife crisis camera and done an introduction to digital photography course and now he saw himself as… Continue reading Happy New Year
Pre holiday panic (14.22)
Wednesday I go to sleep composing in my head the emails I didn't send today but need to send tomorrow. I wake up some time around 2:00am, listening to heavy rain smacking against the windows and find my mind caught in a thought loop about the different ways ough is pronounced in English. * thought… Continue reading Pre holiday panic (14.22)
April fish out of water (13.22)
The French say poisson d'Avril, April fish, not April Fool. Because we are now in April, and I am an April fish out of water. Or am I a fool? I have spoken before about my scepticism over gratitude practice, but since starting my new job and using my new diary that has three boxes… Continue reading April fish out of water (13.22)
Tales from Tobhamhor 