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Raising mixed race kids in China
It’s twelve days now since the baby was born and things are settling down into a manageable routine. He sleeps for three hours, wants to be fed, is fed, wants to be changed, is changed, goes back to...
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Where we live
A couple of months ago I had a walk around our estate and took some photos. It’s spring now, and they’re already out of date insomuch as everything looks grey, and there’s no blossom on the trees, but...
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Strawberry Music Festival 2011
Last weekend I found out that there was going to be a music festival in Tongzhou. A festival! Even the idea that there would be a gig in Tongzhou seemed fairly unlikely. I remember being quite excited...
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Silver Apples in Beijing
Last weekend we went to see the Silver Apples. Who are the Silver Apples, I hear some of you ask. Well, their first album, released in 1968, sounds like a mish-mash of krautrock, electronic pop and...
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Chinese food, one week
I’ve decided that I’d like to write about Chinese food, mainly because nobody else seems to be. People from the UK sometimes ask me if I “eat Chinese food all the time.” Well, yes, most of the time,...
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Things in China
Now that I’ve successfully combined all my blogs I’m predictably going to start making new ones. To that end, here’s ‘Things in China’, a brief distraction daily photo thing, since that seems to be the...
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Fermented (“stinky”) tofu
One night during my first months in China, I noticed a strange smell coming from the night market. At first I thought it was the smell of an improperly maintained sewer, festering in the summer...
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Two Years Back In China – Photos
These can be found here! Filed under: diary Tagged: china life, photos
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Mushroom cloud over Tongzhou
Last week I was on my way back from the centre when I saw a mushroom-shaped cloud in the sky. It wasn’t clear whether or not this was an actual nuclear holocaust, but either way it seemed to be worth …...
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Yunnan trip photos
We’ve just returned from a massive three week trip to China’s southwest corner. Here are some photos – click on the thumbnails for big versions. Filed under: diary Tagged: china travel, photos, yunnan
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Things in China – Fibreglass statue of ET outside my apartment
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Things in China –‘Love Toilet’, Xishuangbanna Airport
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Things in China –“We are Americans”
It’s not really fair to laugh at someone’s poor English when my Chinese is so bad (or fair in any case, come to think of it), especially when it’s some poor woman just looking for a job, but she is...
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Things in China – Year of the snake
Midnight in Tongzhou Zai Zai, born 12.07am, Chinese New Year’s Day Filed under: diary, things in china Tagged: china life, photos, things in china
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Things in China – Cabbage and hotpot
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Things in China – Frost spider tree
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Things in China: Never Forget
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Parkview Green (芳草地) = weird shopping centre
In late April, when it was still basically winter, we wandered by a shopping centre in Beijing and went inside on a whim. Normally this is a recipe for tedium, but fortunately this time there was a...
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Prague, 2003-2004
“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.” – Franz Kafka Filed under: diary Tagged: blind eye, horni pocernice, photos, prague, prague metro, zizkov
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