Challenging, weakened

It was a challenging weekend to get through. My girlfriend was laid low with the sickness she'd had from Thursday night onward, and I was at the clutching-at-the-floor stage of my hangover. So rather than achieve anything epic and salutary on Saturday, we lay about the flat trying to avoid movement. I did read to her from Kolymsky Heights, my favourite deeply-implausible spy thriller, but there wasn't much else worth attempting.

Tai O - shrimp paste preparation

Just like sausages and legislation, shrimp paste is something people like, but nobody wants to be around while it's being created.

Tai O, at last

At long last, after at least a year of meaning to get round to it, we went to Tai O.