the habberjams

Here we go again yet another “Super weather system” is working its way across Taiwan. It has hit us in the middle of the country bringing wind and rain to Taipei. All night the wind raged sounding exactly like a sound track for a Bronte novel. now 6p.m. and still it is raging, the rain [...]

After Seattle I flew to Toronto and was met by a good friend who took me to her house where I stayed for a few days before setting off on a trip. Joanne and Paul made me very welcome, I stayed with them because Christina’s studio apartment is very small and doesn’t even have a [...]

I am sitting at my computer while the wind and rain lash at the bedroom window, we are in the midst of a slow moving typhoon, the eye of which is forecast to arrive over Taipei this evening. It is a category 3 (Katrina was a 3) which may change to a 4. It is [...]