Keeping in touch across the miles
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Celebrity-spotting: if only this made me more important
I’ve been complaining a bit that I’ve been in downtown Toronto for two years, and haven’t seen any celebrities yet. Well, it appears the summer-fall 2007 was meant to change all that. In the past month I’ve seen: Ross Hull You’d know him from Are You Afraid of the Dark and Student Bodies, if anything.…
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Typhoon
Today we have been confined to the apartment, well we have just been out but most of the day we stayed put. I was expecting to go to Mahjong this afternoon but because Typhoon Wipha is coming near Taiwan the Govt. declared a work stand down day so govt. offices and schools etc. are closed.…
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More stories from Taiwan
I forgot to mention that we won the grand prize in the raffle at the Canada Day celebrations; it was a free ticket to Canada from Hong Kong or Japan to be used in the next year. We managed to get it changed so Christina can use it when she comes to Japan. Great present!…
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A real spy-gal
So I just jumped out of a plane… ahhh, yep, that’s right. Pulled meself out onto the plane’s wheel, 3,000 feet in the air, then hung onto its wing for a few seconds and… let go… I’m a convert.
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The Taiwan Adventist Hospital
Tricia has written about the operation, and the circumstances behind it. Suffice it for me to say that I have indeed been VERY lucky (as in fact Tricia was 2 years ago when they found her lung cancer). The Oncologist confirmed that they consider the removal 100% successful, with no need for ongoing treatment (no…
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History
June was a busy month. It got quite hot and has stayed like that, it is like Bangkok hot and humid, sometimes it cools off a little after a storm but the humidity stays so back to the sweating and 2 showers a day routine! We went to another Chinese wedding reception, this time the…
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Back again
What have I been doing? Lots.If you look at Dave’s blog you will see photos from Joanne and Paul’s visit in early July. I will write about that later. The main event has been Dave and his colon cancer!Dave decided, now he has turned 60, to go for a BIG annual check up here in…
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Last night dinner
Just before Paul and Joanne left we went up into the mountains close to our home for a last dinner together. What a fabulous place. An old Chinese country family house. The kitchen was across the road. Not a busy raod thanfully, so dinner arrived OK. After lots of good food, and of course, planty…
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Around Taipei as a tourist
These are some interesting pictures taken while being tourists around Taipei. In one of the night market / tourist places called snake alley (‘cos they drain blood from live snakes for you to drink) there was an artist doing character work on fans and paintings. Who could resist (the fans – not the snakes blood)?…
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Green Island with the Freers
We spent 3 days at Green Island, off the SE coast of TW in the Pacific, about 40 minute ferry ride from the port on TW Island.Upon arrival at Green Island the first order of the day was, of course, drinky poo’s. There were some interesting things around the small island, the rocks above are…
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