The delightful Z is winging her way home today after two weeks in Melbourne. She made some interesting comments about the differences between here and Kuching. She thought our morale was much higher and the work ethic stronger. Staff here have initiative and don't require supervision. We also manage to have a lot of fun along the way.
The most unusual experience she had was participating in the NTEU industrial action last Thursday. She marched through the streets to the rally with the rest of the staff. Such opportunities are rare in Dr Mahathir's Malaysia. On the same day he made his infamous remarks about the Jews.

I'm not really into nostalgia but yesterday morning we got up at 8.30 to watch 'Basil Brush', a revival from the seventies we used to love about a fox and his humans. It is full of corny often predictable jokes. I remembered watching Basil in hospital in 1979, still in pain a week after a kidney operation and the agony of laughing as Basil visited Germany and was constantly greeted as Herr Brush. I still have the scar from that surgery and I'm certain it became wider during that episode of Basil Brush.