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Thursday

V’s been reading my old blogs from my days in Prague and asked me why I don’t write about my life any more. I said that it wasn’t that interesting, and that as I bored myself writing about it, I … Continue reading

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Wednesday

V’s been reading my old blogs from my days in Prague and asked me why I don’t write about my life any more. I said that it wasn’t that interesting, and that as I bored myself writing about it, I … Continue reading

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Tuesday

V’s been reading my old blogs from my days in Prague and asked me why I don’t write about my life any more. I said that it wasn’t that interesting, and that as I bored myself writing about it, I … Continue reading

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Monday

V’s been reading my old blogs from my days in Prague and asked me why I don’t write about my life any more. I said that it wasn’t that interesting, and that as I bored myself writing about it, I … Continue reading

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Work and wires

At the start of this week the landlord turned up at short notice to fix the heating upstairs in the flat. On the one hand this was good news – the upper floor was freezing last winter – but on … Continue reading

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One Hundred Double Tens

Today is, in a sense, the 100th birthday of modern China, but you’d be hard pressed to notice it. On the 10th of October 1911 a small bomb was accidentally detonated in Wuchan, part of modern-day Wuhan, injuring one man. … Continue reading

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The Family

I live in a house with a family consisting of four Chinese people, one half-Chinese baby and a dog, nationality undetermined. I might also be part of the family, it depends. My Mandarin still isn’t up to a level where … Continue reading

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Two Years Back In China – Photos

These can be found here!

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Very Late September Update

It’s been a busy late summer with work, baby and visits, and this blog seems to have been one of the first casualties. Thankfully work’s dried up a bit and we’re just about to reach a week-long national holiday, so … Continue reading

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Spa

V’s gugu (father’s younger sister), biao di (father’s younger sister’s son) and tang di (father’s younger brother’s son) have come to visit for the week, so as per tradition we went to the “Korean spa” yesterday. This involved getting up … Continue reading

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