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Hong Kong has been slowing down since last summer's anti-government protests, and the current haunting spectre of the Novid Coronavirus continues to lurk around every corner, emptying offices and restaurants in the centre of town; closing churches and community...
So much packaging
For one pair of knitting needles
Masked up against the virus
It seems to me that there are two types of people in the world: the type who clean the treadmill after they use it and the type who spray it down before they step on it. I like to clean off my perspiration and the germs from my expressed heavy breathing that will have...
……aaaannnnnddd breathe
Weeks of semi-lockdown and grey skies have given us cabin fever. It's been a gloriously warm, sunny weekend here in Hong Kong and those of us who felt able to get out and about did. We spent yesterday in Hong Kong Park in the centre of town. The aviary was closed...
Life in the time of virus
The Coronavirus in Hong Kong – a personal view
Car to bar dog
Now, Oscar has never liked travelling in cars. Just getting him to approach our big car and jump in to pass his Silver Good Citizen test took several weeks of stressful training and Polish sausage rubbed under my fingernails on the night. This is a pity because I've...
One
One person. One person has texted me today to say she was thinking of me, and this time last year she had only met me twice. Now, I remember dates. Birthdays, anniversaries, that sort of thing. I just do. I know that we're all different and that not everyone else...
Relaxing with macaroni salad
The coronavirus has put many of us under self-imposed semi-lockdown at the moment. Government advice is not to travel or frequent crowded places unnecessarily. With many sports and cultural venues closed, there's not a whole lot to do in our free time. I feel most...