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Early Spring is pleasant in Hong Kong

18th March 2025 Going Postal 2263 Comments

Early Spring is pleasing in Hong Kong – twenty or so degrees, varying humidity and breeze, but pleasant. The Hong Kong flower show starts today (14 March). An indication of a growing season rather different [more…]

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Postcard From Birmingham, Part Eight

2nd November 2024 Always Worth Saying 1837 Comments

Puffins will be devasted to read this is the last episode of Postcard From Birmingham. But thrilled to hear myself and Mrs AWS have been saving up our pennies and coordinating our days off to [more…]

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The celebration of nine lessons

26th December 2023 Going Postal 1610 Comments

The celebration of nine lessons and carols was originally devised by the then Bishop of Truro as a means of getting people out of drinking houses and into church on the evening of Christmas Eve. [more…]

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Year of the Rabbit

18th January 2023 Going Postal 2835 Comments

When I first arrived in Hong Kong, many years ago, I bought a microwave grill for the new flat from Park and Shop, a big supermarket chain. Could it be delivered? “Yes, when do you [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Sixty-Three

16th October 2022 Going Postal 3247 Comments

Monday Good morning merry readers and cat lovers. I’m feeling my age today, I woke up rather stiff, I don’t know why I didn’t indulge in a lot of exercise and since that bloated Palmerston [more…]

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The Lady War Correspondent

8th June 2022 Going Postal 3150 Comments

Your author has enjoyed the extracts posted recently by GP from his uncle’s work, reflecting on older fashioned journalism. The extracts titled ‘The Lady Reporter’ and ‘The War Correspondent’ suggested this response. Imagine, if you [more…]

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Tears & Teargas

4th January 2022 Going Postal 4896 Comments

Those of you with longer and good memories may remember my article from January 2019 about protests in Hong Kong and titled ‘The whiff of teargas’. After recovering from the said tear gas, I wrote: [more…]

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Conventional wisdom maybe – but it’s never the truth

13th September 2021 Emile Woolf 2194 Comments

Whether it’s the belief that commitment to more infrastructure spending by the state will create more jobs; or that import tariffs are needed to protect domestic industries; or that currency manipulation can boost exports; or [more…]

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Dancing With the Dragon, Part One

18th January 2021 Always Worth Saying 1893 Comments

China is one single indivisible territory containing one single indivisible people. It is the most populous nation on earth, the world’s second-biggest economy and has a longer continuous history than any other country – three [more…]

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