Everyone has perked up, people have started smiling. It’s amazing what a few nice sunny days can do to the spirits. The first sign of summer/spring is without doubt the return of the curtains on the windows of the buses. This happened this week.The street where my office is, is really dirty. It has to… Read More »
I have been released from hospital at last and am happy reinstalled in the flat. I am able to walk around but am still weak. I still needed to sleep in the middle of the day and sit down a lot. I have been very lucky to have had so many people visiting me from… Read More »
This is my luxurious hospital room 3A01 in Benq Taiwanese hospital in Nanjing. They promise to let me out today as long as I come back on Monday. This is good news as I have a party to go to tonight. The nurses are lovely and come quickly when I push my button. Pity nobody… Read More »
I decided I wanted to see Taiwan but it’s a bit costly to fly. The next best thing is a trip to a Taiwanese hospital – a lot cheaper and am ambulance will take you there for 15 pounds. I had to pretend to be ill though and need 4 units of blood and two… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
I decided that, after having so many positive comments about my portraits I have decided to make a poster which is a montage of portraits of people in Nanjing. I have trawled through 2 years of pics and found enough to make a poster 1 metre square. I will get one made next week when… Read More »
I decided to spend New Year’s Day up on the Purple mountain walking around the Purple Cloud Lake. I took all my cold weather gear; 2 scarves, 2 prs gloves (1 silk, 1 thin wool), 1 pr Gortex ski mitts, 2 hats, thermal long johns, full length cashmere coat. There were very few people on… Read More »