Posts by Chris Waugh
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Islander,
Cripes, Islander, if I were living down your way I think I'd just buy a houseboat!
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Lilith __,
- and energetic and inquisitive and chatty and very sweet and cuddly.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Islander,
Thanks Islander.
Very wet by West Coast standards? Sounds like the kind of weather that would wash us all out into the Bohai Sea. Do stay dry, safe and warm.
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Oh, sorry, forgot to add: Happy Moon Festival everybody! Remember to check out the moon this evening, weather permitting.
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On the way to pick up these yummy ice cream mooncakes we saw a poster for Esquires, allegedly New Zealand’s No. 1 coffee, all fair trade coffee. We’re always keen to at least find out whether NZ businesses here are worth supporting (NZ Natural Ice Cream, love your products, not such great fans of your prices), so we checked out. Round the corner onto the east face of The Place, and here it was. The interior, however, was much like any other Beijing cafe of its ilk – nice, trendy but not too much, comfortable, but a touch lacking in individuality. The menu didn’t offer much in the way of specifically Kiwi stuff, although it did have a long black (in Chinese, simply 黑咖啡/hēi kāfēi – black coffee). ’Twas good though. Good enough I’ve still got a bit of a buzz on 2 hours later, though of course, driving home through Beijing traffic helped.
And the music was so groovy and Mummy’s drink so yummy the wee one just had to dance.
ETA: as Esquires' logo says, great coffee helps. Certainly does.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Nora Leggs,
mooncakes
Now here’s a mooncake I can like. Dark chocolate skin, vanilla ice cream filling. Yumyumyumyum… And there’s more in the freezer – at least, there were when I clicked post, can’t guarantee there’ll be any for the wife when she gets back from the market.
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Wow, what's with the hostilty towards Keith? Johnathan Milne's body language seemed to be about shutting Keith out until Keith got to speak, and then it turned all condescending - and not just in posture, but also words with that ridiculous "rats running around a statistical laboratory" comment. And John Hartevelt's tone sounded both incredibly defensive and extremely hostile.
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Metallic, plasticy, and electronic, but still very sprouty. These new racks for a bicycle sharing system appeared around the corner sometime very recently. About 50 metres from my apartment, but I only saw it today.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Wildlife is always infinitely superior to mooncakes, no matter how fancy the mooncake packaging.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Nora Leggs,
moon cakes
Well, they come in fancy boxes (which is where I prefer them to stay), and usually free from work. I got two boxes from work this year. They will be taken to the village and left there.
