Author: LMAshton

Howdy! I'm a beginner artist, hobbyist photographer, kitchen witch, wanderer by nature, and hermit introvert. This is my blog feed. You can find my fediverse posts at https://a.farook.org/Laurie.
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Abandoned Property Next Door Gets Facelift

Two men, labourers, showed up next door this morning, about 9 am, and started hacking away at…

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Desiccated Coconut Found

I’ve mentioned before that the grocery stores here don’t use barcode scanners (although Arpico seems to be…

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Floss

Only here would something like FLOSS warrant it’s own heading. I ran out of one type of…

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Kurrakan, Dude

I talked about kurrakan a while ago after we bought a box of chocolate flavored kurrakan breakfast…

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musical trishaws not just for ice cream

I told you about the Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer tuning ice cream trishaws. Meaning, that’s the…

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Yes, we have no bananas . . .

Remember the Banana Tree? It collapsed. The image on the left was taken on 28 April. Image…

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Fahim buys more sweets. Or snacks. Or something.

Fahim bought some groceries today. And among what he bought were these two bags. The Ginger Fingers…

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Fahim Showers

Yes, it may shock you that I’m willing to post a picture of dearest taking a shower….

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Fahim has a strange sense of style

But I don’t care. He’s an adult. He’s responsible for himself. He can do whatever he wants….

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Duel Comets in the Night Sky

Now read it again if you didn’t notice it the first time. Have you noticed it yet?…

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Transportation habits in Sri Lanka

This is something else I haven’t mentioned much, if at all, in here. I’ve mentioned the driving…

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And yet ANOTHER example of the types of vehicles that shouldn’t be driving down our road. . .

You’d think they’d learn. Eventually. Evidently, they have not. It’s a truck carrying a load of scrap…

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And other things, too.

A user error this morning caused me to wrench my thumb. Painfully. It seems that a certain…

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On to other things.

We had a power outage this morning, lasting for oh, two hours or so, and then a…

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Three weeks of constant rain predicted

On the local news. Of course, that’s when we see our first ray of sunshine. And continue…

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Islamic Banking

It was announced on the news today – CNN or Channel News Asia – that Islamic Banking…

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Finally. Internet.

I finally got on the internet again today. First time, oh, pardon me – second time in…

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And here we have another fruit tree. Again, in someone’s yard.

Mango. Yum. Why can’t I have fruit trees in my yard? Huhn? Huhn? Fahim, honey? Why not?…

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Chocolate Bran Cake

Remember the cake I made a couple of days ago with bran instead of oats, and rice…

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Fahim’s DOS thingy is actually working.

A couple of hours playing with this that and the other thing, more commonly called config.sys, emm386.whatever…

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Editor’s Note:

We are sorry to report the demise of a certain writer caused by the sudden meeting of…

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Fahin decided to install DOS

on his computer today. Rather than just the crap dos bitty program thing that comes with Windows…

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More on Vesak Poya Day

I mentioned in previous entries (May 2nd and May 4th) that Vesak Poya Day was a big…

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Vesak Poya Day

I learned something today. The whole reason Vesak Poya Day is the big deal in terms of…

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On another note – completely unrelated

This week is BIW. Book in a Week. Which means I’ll be working on at least one…