If you had told me a week ago I could have written about magazines for a week I would have laughed. It just goes to show that it really is the small things that can be the difference between a good and a great expat (Sun)day. What made it more interesting was that you all [...]
Archive for the ‘Light global reading’ Category
Our reader’s favourites
Posted in Light global reading on August 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Light reading for kids
Posted in Light global reading on August 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You didn’t think I was going to leave the kids out did you? Whilst many kids do their reading online these days, they can still get a kick out of real live paper magazines on a plethora of topics. In addition, receiving a magazine addressed to them in the mail every month, creates something unique [...]
Reminding him how to play as well as work
Posted in Light global reading on August 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Luckily I have snagged one who does balance way better than I do – and can and does teach me a thing or two in that arena. From what I have heard and observed in many of my friends however, this is a rarity, particularly in the expat population. Our male partners and spouses often [...]
Local replacements
Posted in Light global reading on August 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As a teenager, I always remember thinking our ‘local’ newspaper was so boring and never had anything interesting in it. My husband once joked with me about my hometown paper when a front page headline read ‘More wasps this year’ – which further compounded my desire not to read it. As usual in life, we [...]
Why THAT magazine?
Posted in Light global reading on August 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Ever found the link between frequent flier miles and your favorite mag? More on that later… The number of magazines available globally attests to the variety in tastes of all the people that buy them. The more we travel the more our taste may change and grow – yet like leopards, we may never change [...]
Nothin’ like a glossy mag
Posted in Light global reading on August 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I recall a friend mentioning on FaceBook a number of months ago that Australia had a new woman prime minister… somehow because of a busy few weeks I had not read a newspaper and of course it didn’t rate a mention here. As gutted as I was to be the the last to know about [...]
Abandoning technology for woodwork
Posted in Light global reading on August 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I wondered the other day if Aishwarya Rai has had a baby yet, and then I wondered if that politician in Malaysia who I liked so much ever got back into politics and then I wished I had a newspaper – a real one – to find out. Sure I could have gone to MumbaiNet [...]
