Two charcoal burners provide heat for most of the cooking in this lean-to kitchen. Na's dad makes the charcoal, which makes it very cheap fuel.
That brick/concrete wall is the party built retaining wall that is intended to keep our 4000 cubic metres of added soil from washing away in the monsoon rains. Soon the builders will undertake the beautification of the top half of the wall that will be visible above the raised level of soil Drying clothes make like bunting on the outsides of these budget accommodation flats beside the Singapore River.
As I walked home from gym this morning I noticed the low-angle sunlight streaming into the area was forming a set of Jacob's Ladders.
I hurried home, grabbed the Tablet, hurried back, grabbed this image before the effect disappeared. I have not a clue about the physics involved. This is Charlie...a silver Goldfish Mawin won in a street fair fishing game a few months back.
Charlie lived in a small tank in our living-room...outliving his gold Goldfish companions, and eventually out-growing the tank. So...I purchased a new tank, with a whole new garden of plastic water plants. Na purchased a couple of new friends for Charlie. Life was good, and Charlie continued to grow. We left Charlie, and the cats, in the capable care of P'Dom, our ex long-term maid/nannie/factotum when we travelled up-country for an xmas/new year break, and arrived home to find that Charlie was [mostly] no more. P'Dom said she arrived one morning to find a small puddle of water next to the tank, and [behind the sofa] Daisy feasting on fresh silver goldfish. P'Dom thinks Charlie got boisterous and leaped right out of the tank and onto the floor where Daisy did the humane thing by eating him. Daisy seems to be spending a lot of her time with her head semi-immersed in the fish-tank...I suspect the tragic events unfurled a little differently... |
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