HOW FAST IS TIME?
I don’t feel old. I guess I’m not really. When I was small,…
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THE BIG WONDERFUL CHINESE WEDDING
The snake was delicious.It would have been discourteous not to at least try it, being…
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YIWU. CHINA’S GREAT COMMODITY CITY
   . You can take a train from Shanghai South to Yiwu. If you…
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SHENZHEN: TEN YEARS AFTER
We left Garda and Michelle shopping for silk scarves and silk nightwear in Hangzhou while…
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HOW THE JEEP GOT IT’S NAME: NOT REALLY…..
. This is roughly how it went. Bear in mind that to tell a ‘believable’…
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GETTING THE BEST OUT OF RATIONING IN 1939 CANADA
Ottawa Declares Meat of Muskrat Splendid Eating 1939 article 1939 was not a great year…
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BEDBUGS ARE BREEDING
A few weeks ago an Australian Current affairs programme conducted a survey of ten of…
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A Blooming excellent dinner: A look at the Blooming Generation
BLOOMING EXCELLENT DINNER! By Graham Whittaker When times get a little tough it’s easy to…
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YOU CLICKED?
On the writer’s site Authonomy, a Harper Collins site, we have a forum called DOWNUNDER…
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I HATE WRITERS!
  I hate writers. They get together in groups. Pumping egos. Prissing and preening. Like…
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