This one’s a staple in many Filipino homes, and for good reason—it’s easy, healthy, and pairs with just about anything. All you need are grilled eggplants, chopped tomatoes, onions, and a splash of vinegar or calamansi juice. Toss them together, and you’ve got a dish that’s as...
I've been debating whether or not to write a post about this year. In some ways, perhaps it is a year best forgotten. But amidst the global awfulness, within our little bubble we have found moments of joy. It is these moments that I would like to remember when I think back on this...
As a kid, we would have battles to beat each other'sTetrisscores. We'd compete at games ofColumnstoo, meeting up to work together to progress throughBubble Bobble(we never did beat it). One of the most important things I believe I've ever been given is a set of parents that were c...
Next I started to panic that I needed to get stuff to fill our days….commence-writing long extensive shopping lists of arts and crafts, things to do in the garden, DIY in the house, educational things, new “house clothes”, vegetable planting stuff, garden chickens, garden cow, new tra...
And a hot bath (you know the sort…on your own, actual hot water, YOUR bubble bath and no plastic green turtles called Terry getting accidentally stuck up your backside) is THE HOLY GRAIL. I had one, for 10 mins, on 7/2/2018 at 6pm. Time YOU time is a thing of the past. ...
in her toddler days but I had somehow not guided her to apply her fine motor skills on paper. Probably because writing as a skill is something that we as adults rarely use these days. We type, but thats not a writing skill. And I do want her to learn writing as a skill. I do ...
Marx was of course alive to this question. He was wary of what hecalledwriting recipes for the cookshops of the future because he thought the first priority was to ensure the emergence of a working class consciousness, as it was this, he thought, more than the nice ideas of intellectuals...
Why couldn’t the male attendees do the same? Of course Mumsnet are going to target the majority of the audience and they do not need the men there, or indeed at home in their own little filter bubble, criticising the event for not meeting their expectations. ...
I had been putting this off for a long time; writing about how becoming a valiantlymum has made me mourn the loss of my own mum more, in the last four years, than I did the previous thirteen. To be honest, I just didn’t know where to start. Recently, on dropping my little man...
I invested in a paper aeroplane company, but it folded. I also foolishly invested in a failing graffiti business; I hadn’t seen the writing on the wall. A mystic set up a divinatory card reading business for cattle and it failed miserably; it was a Tarot bull way to go. ...