Monthly Archives: February 2012

Pale and interesting

I have gone anaemic! I have got half the red blood cells I should have and I am whiter than my usual very white self. The Chinese hospital wanted me to have an emergency blood transfusion but the western doctors said that the blood wasn’t safe so I am on iron tabs for three months… Read More »

Geurilla Marketing

Sue and I have finished threading ribbon through a thousand bookmarks and I decided that the best way to get to people who are studying TOEFL is to put bookmarks into books. Where do you find books? In books shops of course. So today I went up to Hunan Rd and to the Foreign Language… Read More »

Chicken for dinner

I decided that I was going to make chicken fajitas for dinner as I was desperate for a change from the old routine. That was at 12:45pm. I walked down one of the dirtiest streets in Nanjing (Guangzhou Rd) to the bus stop. I got the number 1 and then the number 27 and 40… Read More »

Lantern Festival

There always seems to be some sort of festival going on. We’ve had had to endure the fireworls and firecrackers of Spring Festival and now it’s the turn of the lantern festival. I was returning home this evening from seeing my friend Chris for half price burgers at Gourmet Kitchen in Shanghai Centre and I… Read More »