Ceylon Express ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 241 Sunday, 8 February 2015. Greetings to readers around the world: I’ll be a year older on Tuesday 10 February but I hope to continue with this weekly newsletter at least for another year! Fellow traveller This is the time of the year when regular visitors to Sri Lanka drop in to see me and ...
Rocking good time. ROYSTONS REPORTS Number 258 Sunday 7 June 2015. Thanks to those readers who sent greetings and especially to those who turned up to my shows in London on 29 May. Rock Poetry It is because of the marvellous organising and enthusiasm of Keith Woods, founder of Tales from the Woods, the UK’s only roots music magazine (www.tftw.org.uk) ...
Wild horizon ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 248 Sunday 29 March 2015. Welcome to readers around the world to this insight into life in Serendipity. Wild Horizon A shout from Kumara to come quickly while I was working made me guess he had seen yet another snake in the garden. “Bring the camera,” he shouted. It wasn’t a snake but Sri Lanka’s ...
Appearing in London ROYSTON REPORTS Number 252 Sunday 26 April 2015. Greetings to readers, especially to those who can join me in London on Friday 29 May. London appearance My US publisher, Kicks Books, has sent out a bold flyer to promote my appearances in London next month. 5pm-7.30pm Friday 29 May THE RETURN OF THE PAPERBACK WRITER ...
Organic seeds ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 238 Sunday 18 January 2015. Greetings to readers in Sri Lanka and overseas to this week’s newsletter featuring classical & rock music as well as an art fair and a tale of Comets… Organic seeds Hidden in the depths of one of the supermarkets where I forage for something Sri Lankan and different every week, ...
Sparkling tea ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 239 Sunday 25 January 2015 Welcome to this week’s newsletter with news on tea, trains and thosai. Another pancake In my never ending search for an alternative to toast made with wheat flour to enjoy at breakfast, I tried my latest discovery from the local supermarket: Thosai Mix. The ingredients are ulundu flour, rice flour ...
Salad Nausea ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 242 Sunday 15 February 2015. Welcome to this week’s newsletter, with thanks to all readers and friends who remembered my birthday. The big one is coming next year. Flourishing Flour In my quest for substitute flours to use instead of wheat flour, I have found yet another. This one is called Undu Flour and, like ...
Yevgeni Yevtushenko ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 249 Sunday 5 April 2015. Greetings from Sri Lanka at Easter, with New Year coming up next. (True! See next week’s newsletter!) Quail pickles A basket of eggs every day I’m in a pickle with my quails as they sometimes lay as many as ten eggs a day - far more than we want to ...
Fish first ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 261 Sunday 28 June 2015. Welcome to this week’s newsletter heralding a newly opened old restaurant. For the cognoscenti. Last week I was delighted to be invited to the opening of the revamped Sea Fish restaurant. I first began popping into the original Sea Fish about 30 years ago (it was founded in 1969) because ...
No frills ROYSTON REPORTS Number 237 Sunday 11 January 2014. Greetings to readers of this week’s newsletter featuring fruit, no frills Negombo, and a collector’s edition of a new magazine. Cookies…! Yoghurt cookies Here is something I bought the other day, which I didn’t taste because I read the ingredients: Wheat flour, sugar, fat, yoghurt, etc… Regular readers know wheat ...
Breakfast foam ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 284 Tropical Topics, Sunday 6 December 2015. Welcome to this week’s newsletter notes on the Maldives, as well as Sri Lanka. Pool party I was lucky enough to be invited to the opening of yet another swimming pool at the Calamander Unawatuna Beach Resort last week. This is the newest addition to what is now ...
Tropical Hockney ROYSTONS REPORTS Number 234 Sunday 14 December 2014. Greetings to all readers in the count down to 2015. This week, it’s art, air freshener and two new hangouts in Galle. The Living Room Here it is, not my living room, but a lounge (with emphasis on lounge) bar in Galle Fort (50A Lighthouse Street) which is how one ...
English whisky??? ROYSTON REPORTS Number 236 Sunday 4 January 2015. Wishing readers around the world a jolly super-duper 2015. Oorid My first trophy for the New Year from my weekly supermarket forage will be familiar to Sri Lankans, but not to me. In spite of my efforts to avoid eating wheat flour, I sometimes crave something breadlike. So I was ...
Sesquicentennial ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 235 Sunday, 21 December 2014. Greetings at Christmas to readers around the world for a jolly good time of well-deserved indulgence. Tropical Christmas It’s Christmas in The Living Room. (not mine but the tavern in Galle Fort) Christmas in Sri Lanka is sublimely tropical and it’s not an extreme sport to swim on Christmas Day, as ...
The Maldives Adventure ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 244 Sunday 1 March 2015. Welcome to this week’s newsletter with news of the release of my latest novel – and there’s another to come next month. Nesting ants A recent item I bagged at an auction is an account by a 70-year old doctor, Casey A Wood, of “rambles through the jungle” written ...
“Barf” bags ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 270 Sunday 30 August 2015. Greetings to readers around the world to this week’s glimpse of life in Sri Lanka, including a look at a curious collectable. Motor show There was a four-day motor show held in Colombo last week. I went there with web wizard, Andrew, out of curiosity and was delighted to ...
Farewell ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 293 TROPICAL TOPICS, Sunday 14 February, 2016. Welcome lovers and others to this St Valentine’s Day edition of my newsletter, which is also the last one. Dish of the Week Beef in Sri Lanka has the unfortunate reputation of being tough and lacking flavour. It isn’t: it’s the lack of traditional knowledge of young chefs ...
Welcome to the website where you can find out all you want to know (and a lot you probably don’t want to know) about Royston Ellis, author, travel writer and erstwhile beat poet.In September 2016, Royston Ellis was appointed for three years as Editor of DESTINATION MALDIVES, the magazine published annually by Feel Investments for the Maldives Marketing & ...
ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 200. Sunday 23 February 2014. Greetings to readers as we countdown to the end of the discount period for purchasing my Bradt Guide to Sri Lanka. Another Arrack A beautiful pink hued glass bottle was given to me for my birthday containing what I’m happy to describe as an arrack of distinction. To my astonishment, ...
T-shirts are some of the easiest garments to print at home. All you really need is a printer and ink cartridges. But did you know that printing your own custom t-shirts at home can cost less than buying ready-made ones from retail stores? And that’s got lots of potential customers scratching their heads. Printing your own t-shirts at home is ...
