Thanks to the wonderful hospitality of The Blowers on New Years Eve I entered the first day of the year slightly jaded – ha ha!!! Mr Rutherford then pings me a note – come join us at Picotin in Siglap. Uber cool bar and restaurant, I feel becoming a favourite when we move to Siglap laterRead More

This is actually me, Brian, typing up what Oliver has written. His first day at his secondary school – SOTA – School of the Arts. Very proud of him as off he went at 0630 this morning, all alone to get the bus, coming home all alone on the MRT. He is indeed a BIG boy now.  NowRead More

Bit of a strange one this – a bit like “The Perfect Storm” – calm and then boom! Best laid plans fell over –  we no longer were to wait to collect from the airport in Singapore, but had to jump on planes to collect from Philippines, destination unknown. I won’t go into detail here, but amazinglyRead More

OMG – what happened. I can’t even now have fun saying just switch the number on the candles round, as that would now be 54. It was my birthday. A birthday started at a rather early time – almost dawn chorus, with Amy and Ollie singing to the top of their lungs “Happy Birthday” forRead More

A bit of an unusual and unexpected weekend this weekend.Most photos are of No.1 daughter as I took the camera to swimming lesson (sorry Ollie).But we also had a fantastic food experience at Lucky Plaza – likely that goes to foodie blog. We also had an amazing experience at Tang’s, a shopping centre if all places,Read More

My baby girl turned 5 today – oh my goodness. So with much planning – almost military grade, we organised a party for her and and her school mates, along with Ollie and a couple of his ‘keep him company’ pals. I think it went very very well. Thanks to my Mary and Ollie for helping with organisingRead More