Hot pot.
Hot pot.
Signal somehow sent a confirmation message to my Chinese phone number. It wasn’t working before. Amazing!
(No more using my old phone!)
Lijiang, China.
All the mushrooms 🍄
If you’re missing any garlic, I think I found it.
Taobao is a Chinese platform for selling. 99% of the things I buy online are from it. It has everything you need and plenty you don’t.
It’s also, kind of, like a social media substitute. I was reading this article and it’s possible to just scroll and scroll.
Coffee and book and dance lessons.
I am loving this book, I’m already feeling sad that the more I read the less I have left.
Also, I watched the trailer for the adaptation. Tom Holland! Daisy Ripley! Mads Mikkelsen! But I don’t think I’ll bring myself to watch it though.
‘Unnecessarily cruel’: how Australia’s closed border is forcing migrants to leave permanently
I do not know how I feel about this article.
I, we, are in a very similar situation. We were lucky my parents came to visit at Christmas 2019. Otherwise, we’d be heading for 2 years without seeing them. It’s now almost 2 years since we’ve left China, with no apparent end in sight. We’ve just sort of accepted that we can’t leave and won’t be leaving anytime soon.
Of course, it’s not that we can’t leave. It’s that if we did we wouldn’t get back in and then I would lose our main source of income.
Though, not seeing my family for a while is sort of normal for us.
The additional issue, for me personally, is that we live in my wife’s hometown. Most of the time, I’m ok with our situation and sometimes it’s really hard.
Photo by Yumo, 3.
Coffee and book and roller skating lessons.
Schools out for the summer!
The carry got tough but glad I stuck with it.
Though doing it in this heat was fun.
Album t-shirts are a thing but are book cover t-shirts?
I’d rather sip water all day and Lyra has this big water bottle to do that but I find it much easier to just occasionally down a big glass of water.
We finally decided to buy a Switch so I can play BOTW. Lyra wanted Just Dance and so those are the two games she bought…
View from a friend’s flat. This city manages to be incredibly built up but still has lots of greenery. (And golf courses.)
We’ve finally visited the theme park 10 minutes from our house.
It’s taken 7 years!
But it’s a kid visit so the big rides will have to wait.
Despite living in China and not Japan, lots of head nodding to this video titled 12 Reasons not to move to Japan.
Drum and Bass on a bike - loving this.
This makes me miss the UK. Funny the things that do that.
Work will subsidise a new MacBook!
Should I get a Pro over an Air? Did I need a Ram upgrade?
Too hot. 105ish in F.
Today I’m grateful for air con in the lift.
I’m so tired. Such a fun weekend but not relaxing!