Another Bangkok memory for this week’s Umbrella Monday. This one also comes to you from the Klong Toey market!
Umbrella Monday
Another internaional Umbrella Monday – this one brought to you from the Klong Toey Market in Bangkok. This market is around the corner from where we lived in Bangkok but we never quite made it there so we made sure not to miss it this past August when we visited. We actually did a cooking class nearby called, Cooking with Poo. You can read more about Khun Poo’s (Khun means Mrs in Thai) amazing story on their website, but suffice to say that she has gone from selling her own food to make enough money to feed her own family to having a cook book sold all over the world, sold out cooking classes, and traveled the world to promote Thai cooking – all in 5 short years! She hadn’t even started cooking classes when we lived there in 2006! Such an incredible story and she is such a lovely lady.
I highly recommend her classes 🙂 That’s Khun Poo in the black top in the background of this shot.
August 2013
It is finally spring here in Melbourne which means that August is over. The last month of winter didn’t feel like that to me, given that it started off in Bangkok and ended with mid 20s weather in Melbourne. However, that very first night back from Bangkok, I did go to Soccer training and it was raining and 7.5 degrees! This month’s highlights are Bangkok to start with of course, but the month also included the launch of the sixth issue of the magazine I’m involved with, in Brief, with my image on the front cover, delicious food as usual, planting flowers, saying goodbye to Emma for 5 months as she goes on exchange in Denmark, and hanging out with my dogs. The best part of the month, though, was the Melbourne Writers Festival. It ended on Sunday, so September 1st so next month’s calendar will have the last little bit of it, but the end of this month was entirely shaped by the festival. I was at the festival every day of the 11 days (my favourite number!) save one because I fell ill from being so exhausted! It was an incredible experience. There were over 300 events in the festival and even though I was there almost every day, I only went to 50 of them! And that felt like a lot! It was a great organisation to be part of and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
So that was August 2013! Now onto September!
