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One of the sarong covers in my house Quite recently, my friend Jeannine who comes from Australia asked me to make a sarong bed-cover for her queen size bed and I couldn't resist telling her the story of another coverlet that had left for Down Under. Let me share that story with you. One of my comforter covers is already in Australia. Some twelve years ago I made friend with an Aborigine lady artist who had been invited  here in Kuching by Atelier Sarawak. Later, her work, painted on silk, was later displayed at the Petronas Tower Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. Right away we stroke a friendship and I invited her to our country home where she spent a couple of days. Her bed was dressed with one of my sarong comforter covers and she saw all of them in the other rooms. She asked if I would make one for her, and she went back to Australia with it. My new friend was seriously physically handicapped; she had spent her childhood between foster homes and hospital rooms, mostly the latt...

                                                                                                         Stick Insect The insect world will never cease to amaze me; merely observing those surprising creatures is an adventure in itself that does not even require me to leave my garden and often not even my house!  Only this morning, as I was getting organised to spend some time on my lap top while seating on the terrace, I started moving one of the rattan armchairs to position it under the cooling draft  of the ceiling fan.      I am far from being the only one to enjoy the comfort of the semi-outdoors and I am not just thinking of my family and friends here: I often find tree frogs under ...