![]() The picture of the family house below was taken much later (2010), but even in 1968, when I first saw it, it was beautiful wooden building in the traditional Malay style of the area, where the tangga (steps) are a speciality, and the best side of the curtains always faced outwards… It had running water and an indoor toilet, and (usually) electricity. When I saw it for the first time, a coconut tree had fallen across the village power lines, so we arrived in the pitch dark in the kampung (village). ![]() ![]() We’d landed in KL at night, and were taken by car to the family home in Melaka (Malacca) where my husband had grown up. (Title Pinched from another writer, of course)īack in 1970 my husband took me to my in-laws’ house. ![]()
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