Keeping in touch across the miles
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More about UK visit.
The last Sunday I was in England, Palm Sunday, I took Mum on a trip up to the Trough of Bowland, where she spent time working on a farm when she was in the Women’s Land Army during and after the second world war.I had been to this lovely spot before but never really spent…
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news
Right I got that off my chest as they say, my previous blog I mean. I returned to Taiwan yesterday, Wed. 4th April, and am now starting to get back into my Taipei “skin”. My sojourn in England was eventful. I went to help my Mum during and after her mastectomy. Mum has made a…
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Google Takes Over Blogger
I am upset! For 2 hours last night I tried unsuccessfully to get onto my blog website. I have been using this site for 5 years and never had trouble before. Now Google has taken it over and it is extremely difficult for a regular person like me to get onto the site. Not only…
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After CNY – lantern festival
The week after the Chinese New Year holidays was lantern festival. The big display was in the grounds of the Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall. These are some pictures of the Lantern “floats” – there were about 40. This year is the year of the pig – as you can see!
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Street market, prep for Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year took up the whole 2nd half of February, and then into March.These pictures were taken at a special pre New Year street market.It was VERY crowded here, but really interesting. People were buying lots of stuff, ready for the celebration.The actual holiday (a week off work) lasted from 17-25 February, but there…
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digital media ruminations
This week my work hosted a conference specifically addressing technological issues in the book industry. It was a fantastic forum for harvesting ideas and, I believe, if publishers were open-minded and fore-thinking enough to look at some of the panelists’ presentations in metaphorical terms, could stimulate some interesting new directions for marketing the creation of…
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Mum
Mum went into hospital on 9th March for her Mastectomy. We had to be at the hospital for 7:30am, mum could have her last meal before 6am. My sister and I escorted her to the hospital where she was spoken to by the anesthetist around 9am and then began the long wait. Mum was scheduled…
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I have been in UK for 10 days now. My mum’s operation went well and she is recovering nicely. I will write more about this later. My flight over to UK was extremely eventful.I travelled with Cathy Pacific which flew me first into Hong Kong where I had a pleasant but boring wait in the…
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orage snowboard clothing
I finally broke down and bought a really cool Orage snowboarding suit. I’d been eyeing up the Byng jacket all winter, but I was undecided on which colour, and couldn’t find a price I was willing to pay. All of a sudden one day, my searches for this jacket proved boundlessly fruitful. I pulled up…
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Mum
My mother has just been diagnosed with breast cancer, she is 84.You are never too old to get breast cancer. She has Paget’s disease of the breast, see below for more informationhttp://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Cancertype/Breast/Typesofbreastcancer/PagetsdiseaseI am going back to UK on 27th February with Dave who is going for a meeting. I will go to my Mum’s and…
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