Category: Life

The jambu fruit are growing – it’s that time of year. 🙂 The jambu erupt into blossoms,…

We don’t get pretty little spitting little delicate rains here. Oh, no! No, no, no, no, no!…

Yeah, definitely too much with the exclamation marks. Too bad. I seem to like them. 😉 What…

This photo was taken on the road between Colombo and Kurunegala from out of a moving car,…

Yeah, I can be a bit overdramatic at times, hey? 🙂 Every day, or, more accurately, most…

My poor lime tree. Okay, it’s really my mother in law’s lime tree – she planted it…

I’ve mentioned before that not everyone has running water piped to their homes in Sri Lanka. In…

Yeah, I couldn’t help myself. 😀

It’s true, I’m easily confused. 🙂 Here’s another confusion for me. Why would soft toys and household…

Yeah, I’m really not sure how many people will stop reading my blog over this, and yet…

The empty lot next door really isn’t empty. It’s just empty of a house, a dwelling, an…

Mites are absolutely everywhere here, as are ants of all sorts of sizes and descriptions. Battle ’em…

Which I’ve also seen spelled as jumbu and jumboo and a bunch of other ways. But Fahim…

Bicycles may not be the most common form of transportation here, but they’re still used, even as…

Fahim calls ’em bunnies. I blame him for the title of this post. 😀 I make my…

It’s quite easy, I’m told, to find someone to custom-make wooden furniture for you here. I’m also…

We have somewhat frequent water outages here, and they can last 12 hours or longer. Fahim even…

This is the view from just outside the Arpico department store where we go for grocery shopping….

I’ve mentioned before that, in empty lots here, stuff grows. Yeah, cuz "stuff" is such a highly…