As with fish and chips, I never thought I’d miss hot cross buns. I did—and more so after having a baby. A British bakery did make a version of hot cross buns in Seoul with cranberries. As I wrote in a previous post, it's hard to find ingredients...

Even though European stockpiling became an object of ridicule, scarcity of ingredients is a problem I often faced in Korea. To combat the scarcity, on visits home to Britain, or when I saw products on shelves in Korea, I stockpiled.

Stockpiling...

Back at work with one company now. It's a foreign bank. They were the first to introduce work-from-home policies. They were also the first to start back at work, although there are a lot fewer people in the office now. The big Korean companies conti...

Day 3 (Wednesday)—Continued checking our temperatures all day. Range was between 36.8 and 37. Normal. My throat was still a bit sore; decided I definitely need to shout less at Dora. We all left together in the morning—Yonguk for work, Dora and I f...

If anyone is interested about life in Seoul during the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic, below is a small snapshot.

Day 1 (Monday)—woke up with a slight fever and sore throat. Temperature ranged from 37.4-37.7. Normally I wouldn’t even take Tylenol, b...