Singapore here we come. Tomorrow we, Nancy, Jean and I fly to Singapore. My 60th country. Ever since I got the app Mark O'travel I have wanted to go to 60 countries before my 60th birthday. So barring emergencies I will achieve that ambition!!

I am in PP for a course and decided that my hair needed a cut. Nancy had dyed it at the weekend and I felt it was time for a visit to the hairdresser. I decided to splash out and have a shampoo as well. Believe it or not that is an experience that everyone should enjoy at some time in their lives. Stage One - The Cut: My hair was sprayed with water by a handsome young man and it was cut, very short. I don't think it has ever been shorter - he even thinned it out...

Having arrived on Friday afternoon the three of us wandered into town and luckily all three wandered back However on the way we found a restaurant that served BBQs which overlooked the river. It was lovely. They had brought out a camping mattress so that they could sleep on my floor in some comfort, why it was me who ended up on the floor I never quite understood - something to do with the air conditioning in the bedroom!! I had asked them to bring the mattress ...

This is my rice cooker and gas ring. I have now used both. Fish green curry with rice. For those of you who are as ignorant as I was, a rice cooker is something that cooks rice!! You cannot fail, it come out white, fluffy and perfect every time - or so I was told. You put in rice and water press a button and leave it until the light turns orange. I did just that, sadly not enough water added more and out came slightly over done rice but rice you could eat (or a...

Well Sidney was due to arrive at between 6pm and 7pm by taxi and telephone number - my telephone number. Now my Khmer is, as you know, fluent. I can buy just about anything, I can order what I like in a restaurant (as long as it is rice, chicken and coffee) however directing a taxi driver worried me a little!! Just as you would expect the phone rang, I smiled at it and handed it over to my lovely landlady's daughter. Ten minutes later a taxi arrived with a bike t...