Letter from Lundu 10 February 2009 (Brief Communications‪)‬

I'm neither a former D.O. nor a missionary, yet I too am an Old Hand and one day I too shall write a memoir of life in Sarawak. Or maybe I won't. However, I have a title, and a catchy title is nothing to waste, so here it is: A Lawn in Borneo. Life in Borneo has been mostly about cutting grass. Apart from the laborers on the roads, I must mow more grass than anyone in Lundu. The grass in the garden (kebun) must be shorn every month year-round--no winter here--and every month I join the men of the Stunggang in the gotong-royong upkeep of the church grounds.