February 23, 2016 7 Miss Chu’s first Mandarin Show and Tell This week, Miss Chu posts a video of her very first Chinese Show and Tell at school! So far, Miss Chu is [...]
February 16, 2016 3 I wish Chinese New Year was in April Whilst I totally love the Christmas season, admittedly, Boxing Day always brings a little welcome relief as [...]
February 2, 2016 6 Multiply Your (hongbao) Money! Chinese New Year is just around the corner and Miss Chu uses a little magic to make sure she’ll get the [...]
December 22, 2015 3 Three sleeps to go! Does Santa know we’ve moved house this year? It’s stockings at the ready in the Chu household as [...]
December 15, 2015 1 Snow, Spiegeltents and M&S mince pies: yes, it’s Christmas in Singapore Just in case you thought Christmas* in the tropics might consist of a palm tree wrapped in string lights and [...]
December 8, 2015 3 Rain, more rain, and then…snails! December is the officially the wettest month in Singapore. In fact, Singapore gets over five times more rain [...]
December 1, 2015 7 Gearing up to start primary school in Singapore December is the equivalent of UK’s summer holiday season in Singapore; a six-week school break at the end [...]
November 24, 2015 6 Library Love Lost Last week I took the kids to our new local children’s library, called “My Tree House” – which is [...]
November 3, 2015 2 Concrete jungle or Garden City? Singapore is often called a concrete jungle – but actually, the government has done a pretty good job [...]
October 20, 2015 5 Location, location, location Back in 2014 when we were seriously contemplating a move from Edinburgh to Singapore, we started thinking [...]