Comments on: A visit to Singapore https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/a-visit-to-singapore/ Captain Hugh and the Reluctant Navigator Mon, 08 Jun 2020 14:17:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: Paul https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/a-visit-to-singapore/#comment-59208 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 14:17:55 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=5634#comment-59208 Singapore looks brilliant and one place I would like to visit, i saw the programme on the hotel with the roof top swimming pool it was brilliant. Hope all well with you all. All good here was great to see grandchildren this weekend.

Best wishes

]]> By: annie https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/a-visit-to-singapore/#comment-59147 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 09:30:34 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=5634#comment-59147 In reply to Gerard Smart.

Hi Gerard
She sounds like someone from a Trollope novel. Did you know that Charles Dickens wrote under the pseudonym ‘Lady Maria Clutterbuck’? It sounds like you need to do some research on this!
I too have an old mah jong set inherited from my parents which we used to play as children. I must get it out and relearn how to play.
I suspect Singapore would be hardly recognisable now to your mother.
I hope you’re both enjoying (?) lockdown.
Annie xx

]]> By: annie https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/a-visit-to-singapore/#comment-59141 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 09:04:16 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=5634#comment-59141 In reply to Niki.

Hi Niki
It reminds me of the Crosby, Stills and Nash song….
“Almost cut my hair
Happened just the other day
It’s gettin’ kind of long
I could’ve said it was in my way
But I didn’t and I wonder why
I feel like letting my freak flag fly”
Peace & love
Annie xxx

]]> By: Niki https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/a-visit-to-singapore/#comment-59125 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 07:40:21 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=5634#comment-59125 ]]> I was deported from Singapore after arriving from Bali with my long haired boyfriend in 1972 ? We were put back on the plane – next stop Bombay (Mumbai) So we continued our journey on the hippy trail from there ✌️

]]> By: Gerard Smart https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/a-visit-to-singapore/#comment-58942 Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:19:30 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=5634#comment-58942 My mother was out there in 1931 (aged 20) acting as companion to Lady Clutterbuck (whoever she was). The only momentos are my ukelele, an original “old man lamp” not one of the horrible modern ones and my unusual bamboo mah jong set which we use regularily and the grandkids love it. I wonder how much it has changed.

Good luck and stay safe

Gerard

]]> By: Ken Dolbear https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/a-visit-to-singapore/#comment-58926 Sun, 07 Jun 2020 13:12:49 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=5634#comment-58926 Great. Another one to go on our bucket list, if we are ever allowed, or can afford, to leave the country again. Ken and Jane x

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