I left off two weeks ago with an account of my battle with shingles. I had meant to post something else in between, something slightly more interesting, but there wasn’t a lot to write home about from where I was, unless I began to discuss China-US relationship which would take up a lot of time…
By now, some of you would have got wind that I had contracted shingles and had taken medical advice to avoid social activities and take as much rest as possible for a week, meaning to stay home and sleep as much as possible. My first close association with shingles was in July 2004 when Rosita…
I announced yesterday that I had posted four more blogs on my recent travels. Together with the previous posts, it meant that I had posted altogether nine blogs on this the first trip we had taken after a break of more than three years. I have never meant these blogs to be travelogues, and as…
I left off with the party making for Tours proper around 4:15pm after the visit to the chateau where Duke of Windsor had his wedding in 1937, arriving Tours just before 5pm. Rue du Halles was a main street. Su asked me to park somewhere so that she could go to get the key to…
I left off Saturday night when we were expected to join Mei-Mei’s Church service on Sunday at 2pm, but were told that the Ukrainian couple had called off the planned dinner for Sunday because of a broadcast football match involving their country’s team. Su hatched a revised plan overnight. We were to attend a Church…
Now that we have been back to base for a week, I thought I’d better put in words some of what happened in the first serious travels Su and I had for over three years before memories began to fade. First, the itinerary. It began with a need for me to be in London in…
Bosco, Rosita’s brother, asked what other birthdays can one have other than one’s biological birthday. He was reacting to Su’s FB post on the subject. To the rhetorical question, I acknowledge that while there can only be one day on which one was born, a person can celebrate one’s birthday on more than one occasion…
Since my last blog, we continued our eating and drinking and I had cut more cakes, albeit symbolically at times, and today marked our 14th wedding anniversary, which historically and traditionally has been represented by ivory, as Su had broadcast on Facebook this morning. However, ivory has now become an issue because of poaching and…
This blog could be longer than usual, after the long holiday that we all had. Indeed, most employees would have needed only to take two or three days leave to be away from office or work for nearly two weeks, so that most offices were not quite staffed for any real work during the fortnight….
April has become my birthday month after I found out late in life that I was born on a date other than the one recorded on my Identity Card which has been 7 April from time immemorial and based on which record I turned 75 yesterday. Yesterday was indeed an epochal day. It marked the…
