Brian texts me about traveling to Kuching, and wants to put up near our house - 'we have two, there is one which is nearer to town and another one full of cats and dogs'. That sentence sums up the present situation - we have a weekend house where we sit quietly and look through the thousands of books on topics selected by someone else.
That evening, before dinner Ivy sat engrossed in a book she found in one of the boxes (on Abraham Lincoln) while we fussed around getting dinner ready. This image captures the spirit of this house.
Another image is in the front room where I can sit and draw in the afternoons when it gets hotter in the kitchen. Years ago, Wong Kiong showed us a photo of Richard Lepastrier bent over a drawing board in a verandah - and said 'that's Min when he is 60'.
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