Very shortly after posting about our plans for coming home on Friday we found out, via the news, that BA had cancelled all flights from China for at least a month. Great! After a few phone calls and with no certainty that any flights with other airlines would definitely happen we were offered seats onContinue reading “Homeward Bound *update*”
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Homeward bound.
To say it’s been a stressful and uncertain week would be an understatement. Watching the news about Coronavirus unfold up close in real time has been a surreal experience. It’s so hard to sort the fact from the fiction and to get a sense of how things are likely to develop. We’ve been inside 24Continue reading “Homeward bound.”
Coronavirus
What started with us joking about Corona-beer-virus is now looking a bit serious. It’s impossible to know how things will pan out but for now we are keeping an eye on the news and health guidance and taking all sensible precautions. Beijing is eerily quiet for CNY anyways but those people that are about areContinue reading “Coronavirus”
Spring Festival is nearly here
Today is the last day of school for the kids before Chinese New Year. they are dressing up in CNY themed clothes and there is a cake sale to raise money for those affected by the Australian bushfires. I’m helping out with Ezra; can’t see that being anything other than total stress as he triesContinue reading “Spring Festival is nearly here”
Happy New Year
No sooner is Christmas and International New Year (as I’ve heard it called here) done with and it’s on to Chinese New Year! It’s lovely to see Beijing getting into the swing of a festival that they really care about. Decorations are being put up everywhere. Most seem to be incorporating some of the ChristmasContinue reading “Happy New Year”
The day I reached Ultimate Dad status
All the Dad’s out there I suggest you look away now. Move on. Skip this post. because I think it would be fair to say that I’ve reached peak Dad. Dad-vana if you will. Get a load of this. So I have the ultimate Dad-mobile. A neighbour has one and I was well jel soContinue reading “The day I reached Ultimate Dad status”
⚽️ Football ⚽️
When I knew I was moving to China I was immediately keen to check out some local Football. The Chinese Super League is growing in popularity but as a westerner, it’s something I generally only hear about when players that are over the hill go there to play out their final seasons. It’s a bitContinue reading “⚽️ Football ⚽️“
Christmas Update…
The tree is up at school in preparation for this weekends Christmas Cracker. Which Ezra particularly is delighted with. Also we woke up to this ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ So maybe it is beginning to feel a bit Christmassy 😜🎄
A few pics from our trip to Beijing Zoo 🐼
🎼 It’s (not really) beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
So Christmas doesn’t seem to have hit Beijing in the way that I’m sure it is everywhere at home. Some chopping centres have trees. Erm… one cafe was playing “Last Christmas”…. but I’m yet to hear the Pogues so it’s not yet arrived. We are going to Thailand for a holiday a week or soContinue reading “🎼 It’s (not really) beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”
5061 Miles From Home 