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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Monsoon Season is Seriously Here

I’m experiencing what Fahim talked about. We think it may have been raining all night, but as…

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The cake, boss. The cake.

I told Fahim that he wasn’t allowed cake before breakfast, so what does he do? You guess…

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Laundry hung up to dry outside doesn’t get dry very quickly during monsoon weather.

That makes sense, right? Right. Well, it’s not like I hang up the laundry under the open…

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Today was REALLY monsoon weather. And yesterday, too.

Yesterday, it rained three times, the shortest rainfall lasting for 45 minutes. The last one lasted for…

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Prophet Mohamed’s Birthday

Mohamed being the guy who started the whole Muslim religion. I say this to Fahim, to confirm…

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On another note, we watched a Hindi movie.

I made the cake in the middle of it. It wasn’t a typical Hindi movie. There was…

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Gross Cooking Day

Breakfast was fine – nothing eventful, thank heavens. Lunch and dinner was also fine. I cooked chicken…

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May Day

Today is May Day. You’ve probably heard of May Day. European holiday celebrating the return of spring….

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On another note. And not at all related.

Fahim made a mistake. A potentially serious mistake. He introduced me to RPGs. And what are RPGs,…

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The Tamil Tigers want to be the sole representatives of the Tamil people.

This wouldn’t be a problem if the Tamil people actually wanted this. But at this point, no…

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Monsoons are here to stay.

For a little while, anyway. And it was announced on the news this morning that water reservoir…

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The President is Power Hungry

But that’s not news. What is news is that she wants to change the constitution. See, she’s…

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News

Fahim and I were watching the news while we ate breakfast – this is a fairly usual…

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Day Two of District Conference

Royce from Negumbo and his computer first. At conference today, he said he went home, did what…

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Day One of District Conference

In parts of the world where we have stakes, we have Stake Conference. Where there are districts,…

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Have I talked about the music these ice cream bikes and trishaws use to attract customers?

No? Then why don’t I? Christmas music. More specifically, jingles like "Jingle Bells, Christmas smells, a million…

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Smokin’!

Literally. To burn something, one does not need a permit here, I assume. I think it’s a…

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Fahim eats with his fingers.

This is not, in fact, news. I’ve mentioned it before. Perhaps I should state it again? Okay….

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Fahim’s Baby Tooth Fell Out

Nope, that’s not a typo. Yep, it’s true. It really happened. And no, we’re not talking about…

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More on Family History. . .

We had the same presentation to give today in Colombo 1st branch, meaning my branch, that we’ve…

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Sri Lankan cats are puny

I was out and about today, and finally I remembered to take pics of some local cats….

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Trishaws are a handy thing.

And I finally took one – a close up picture, that is – of a trishaw with…

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On another note. . .

I think most of you know by now that Fahim’s a little, uh, strange. Which is perfect…

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Day prior to Sinhala and Tamil New Year Day

Fahim seriously doesn’t work a whole lot this week. And that, above, is exactly how it’s worded…

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Sinhala and Tamil New Years can be a pain in the butt

See, most people are taking the entire week off. Most shops are closed for the entire week….