The “Hash House” was the mildly derogatory nickname given (for its unimaginative, monotonous food) to the Royal Selangor Club Chambers in Kuala Lumpur by the British civil servants and businessmen who lived and dined there between the two World Wars, when it became something of a social centre of the times.
Day: 10 January 2022
Thanks for the memories, Betty White
Golden Girl, Betty White, passed away on New Year’s Eve, just 17 days short of her 100th birthday. She is perhaps most adored for playing Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls, an American sitcom about four women ‘of a certain age,’ which broke with convention. When the show began, Betty was aged 63 when she played 55-year-old Rose so was actually a year older than Estelle Getty, who played elderly, feisty Sophia.
Breakthrough diabetes treatment without insulin
A hormone called FGF1 has been shown to treat diabetes, according to a study published in the metabolic research journal, Cell Metabolism, on Tuesday.
Gaslighters soon to face charges
Coercive control, including gaslighting, of present and former domestic partners, will soon become illegal in NSW.