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HOT

Posted on 06/07/2010 by haonowshaokao

It was 46°C yesterday. 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Cycling to work was like having a hairdryer blown in my face. I’m not complaining though. This is MUCH better than the winter.

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Visit #1

Posted on 03/07/2010 by haonowshaokao

I haven’t written much on here over the past couple of weeks because my mother, sister and her fiancee have been visiting. Now they are all safely back in the UK it’s time to put up the photos, describe briefly … Continue reading →

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RIP Alan Plater

Posted on 30/06/2010 by haonowshaokao

Alan Plater died last weekend. Not an incredibly well-known name, or a fashionable one, but one that had been somewhere near the top of my TV heroes list since I first saw The Beiderbecke Affair in the mid 1990s. Writing … Continue reading →

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Dragon Boat

Posted on 11/06/2010 by haonowshaokao

It’s the Dragon Boat festival this Monday. A few years in China and I still don’t really know what this means, besides eating zongzi (which V has spent the last week or so making). I suppose Easter just amounts to … Continue reading →

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No why

Posted on 08/06/2010 by haonowshaokao

One of the responsibilities I have in my new job is to interview applicants for our TEFL course. The point is mainly to test their English proficiency, but I also want to find out if they are motivated enough to … Continue reading →

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Last Night A DJ Killed My Dog Podcast #025 – The Unfair Funfair

Posted on 30/05/2010 by haonowshaokao

It’s time for my occasional podcast again. This time the (fairly rubbish) theme is “The Unfair Funfair” This one has been in the planning stages for years, and is being put out there only at the stage of my finally … Continue reading →

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The English Tea Ceremony

Posted on 26/05/2010 by haonowshaokao

…and so on…    

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Continuing domestic upheaval

Posted on 24/05/2010 by haonowshaokao

For the past three months we have been living an easy (if busy) life in a beautiful courtyard, spoiled by one thing; Grandma. She’s not our Grandma, she’s just our landlady – but the smallness of the place and the fact that … Continue reading →

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‘Theft’ and stealing

Posted on 20/05/2010 by haonowshaokao

It’s not exactly becoming for an English teacher to start whining about correct usage of English, and it’s something I try to avoid completely these days. Aside from being fundamentally annoying and probably pointless it also counts as “taking my … Continue reading →

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Where I live

Posted on 17/05/2010 by haonowshaokao

About three months ago we finally managed to escape from Beijing’s suburban high-rise commuterland and found a new house in one of my favourite parts of town, Nanluoguxiang. This is what it looks like, except it’s not really so quiet. … Continue reading →

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