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  • Far Cough

    Yesterday Kai asked me if I knew what a fart and cough at the same time was called. I said, “No, do you?” He said yes and then took out the last consonant of “fart” and joined it with “cough” to make one word. I told him never to say it again.

  • Show Me The Monkey

    We love our new home. And after four months, we still love that it takes 30 minutes to walk up from Dunearn Road (although there’s a shuttle service) and we love the lush greenery all round. We didn’t mind that there was a colony of long-tailed macaques roaming the edge of the Bukit Timah Nature…

  • DIY Stroganoff

    We haven’t visited a restaurant that serves beef stroganoff since the last time I wrote about it, and suggestions from readers haven’t been taken up either – too far lah, sorry. But we did manage to fix up a dinner using Jamie Oliver’s recipe for it, which requires “a small glass of brandy”. We got…

  • The fight to finish holiday leftovers

    We’ve had all manner of turkey and ham sandwiches in the last couple of weeks, and I’m proud to announce that we’ve finished the tasty stock we made from the huge turkey carcass. Trying to clear our fridge by eating the stuff that’s in it before they expire is no mean feat, given that Naomi’s…