My younger daughter is now living and working in Singapore just as we did for 18 years. In fact Chrissie was born there and now feels that she has arrived back home again.
Anyway we were persuaded that we needed to fly out and revisit Singapore as well as our favourite spots in Malaysia and Thailand.
Such a long flight.... good excuse to go away for a whole month's holiday leaving my wonderful team of girls to look after the shop.
After a couple of days in Singapore we took a short flight on a very small plane to Tioman Island, Malaysia, which is where they filmed South Pacific many years ago. I'd forgotten how blue and warm the sea is and how white the sand. Also how peaceful with no people on the beach!!
Did lots of reading and knitting. It really was an idyllic holiday. Singapore was as hot and busy as usual but fortunately there was no nasty haze when we were there.
Sorry about all these beautiful blue skies but now that England is so beautifully and sunny, I don't have to feel guilty anymore.
It was wonderful escaping from a cold England to the sunshine and arriving back here to such good weather. The summer already seems to have been very long and we're still in the first half of July.
We were able to catch up with lots of old friends still in Singapore including my old quilting group. Quilting not knitting is what I did mostly in Singapore.
The final beautiful beach in the photo is on Rawa Island in Malaysia. We started going to Rawa Island in 1979 when it was just like camping on the beach now it is quite a luxurious resort.
Good friends came over to see us for a night and brought a cake for Chrissie's 30th birthday.
David stayed on with Chrissie in Singapore for another 3 weeks but I couldn't stay away from Spin A Yarn any longer.
Flew back on my own to find out that Katie my elder daughter and her husband Dan are expecting a baby in the New Year while their Springers had had 9 puppies.
Katie collapsed while teaching and had to go into hospital to be rehydrated. I was devastated as my beautiful border collie dog Flynn collapsed and I discovered he has a tumour in one front leg so is now on strong pain killers. He seems quite happy for a while but don't expect him to last long..................
Its not been a quiet few weeks! I'll finish here and get back to knitting topics next time.
I was trying to post a picture of Katie with the puppies I took at home today but not sure where the photo has disappeared to.
Some techie person will help me I'm sure.
The newsletters have all been labelled and are just waiting to be franked now. They look beautiful and we are very pleased with the printer. We have arranged for them to be picked up on Tuesday so you should all Start receiving them on Wednesday.
Back to knitting next time.
Joyce
