Pictures? Patience, please.

My apologies for having gone AWOL for a while.

I have been working, as incredible as that may sound.  Following the advice of a friend, I placed a couple of proofreading and copy-editing listings on a website that lists all manner of freelance services. To my alternating amazement, delight and consternation, the work has started to pour in.

I've been correcting the business emails of Korean post-grad students, ensuring proper and consistent comma usage in erotic novels, correcting spelling and sentence structure in an application to a California seminary, jazzing up some web site copy for the developer of a new app to hook up fitness addicts with gyms and trainers, compiling a list of 750 words to illustrate all the phonemes in the English language for the Vietnamese developer of an early-reading application, and oh so much more. Oh, I forgot -- I'm also writing copy for a construction/renovation company in Mallorca.

I'm old enough to remember life before the internet, but I still marvel at this turn of events.

Here in Cambodia, though, we have now entered the 15 days of Pchum Ben, the lunar holiday to honour the ancestors.  The official holidays are the last three days, which fall on Monday - Wednesday, 22 - 24 September this year.  Like Khmer New Year, this is another holiday which results in an exodus from Phnom Penh as Khmers go home to the provinces.  I have been eagerly waiting for this, very keen to ride my bike all over the empty city.  When I do that, I'll take my camera with me, and you shall have photos galore.  Good photos?  Don't push your luck.