Category Archives: General Shanghai

Just, Why?

Posted on December 6, 2016 by The Pearl

There are just some things that happen here that make me stop and think why?  Sometimes the answer  is obvious. Sometimes I’m baffled to this day. Why would someone do that?   Why did the marketing department think this was a … Continue reading →

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Having A Rest

Posted on November 6, 2016 by The Pearl

It seems that from a very early age the Chinese are trained to sleep anywhere.  Often on the metro I’ll watch toddlers dropping off to sleep in their Mother’s (usually it is the mother) arms.  It takes them next to … Continue reading →

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The Saga of The Not So Bold or Gold Fish

Posted on February 17, 2016 by The Pearl

When it became obvious that we were going to be asked to stay for another year in Shanghai I agreed with Richard that we should do a little bit more to make our apartment homely.  Arriving with three suitcases each … Continue reading →

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Sprouts

Posted on February 3, 2016 by The Pearl

Sometimes here in China you can’t help thinking to yourself what on earth are they thinking.  That happened to us during the summer.  It started when Charlie and Ella were over here visiting in August when we were in Hangzhou on … Continue reading →

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A Certain Mindset

Posted on December 23, 2015 by The Pearl

There are many reasons why this blog had more or less gone to sleep for a couple of months over the autumn.  First of all we had visitors from the UK and we had trips out of China, to Hong … Continue reading →

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Chinglish

Posted on October 9, 2015 by The Pearl

We are very lucky.  In the run up to the Beijing Olympics the powers that be decided that China (at least in the big cities) should have signs not only in Chinese but also in English, or in the case … Continue reading →

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The Chinese Way of Doing Things

Posted on October 7, 2015 by The Pearl

Not long after we arrived, I wrote a blog post entitled Some Surprising Things.  The time has now come to revisit this theme, although as you’ve probably seen over the past months this is an everyday experience for me and … Continue reading →

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Learning About Shanghai

Posted on October 6, 2015 by The Pearl

It has been a very long time since I wrote anything on this blog for which I apologize.  September marks the arrival of the new school year and along with it a large influx of new Expat faces into this … Continue reading →

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The Girl On The Trike

Posted on August 28, 2015 by The Pearl

I had not noticed this before and maybe she has been there before now, but Charlie and Ella spotted her on our way to the supermarket the day they left China on their way back home to the UK.  Since … Continue reading →

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The Maglev Train

Posted on August 26, 2015 by The Pearl

I was first introduced to the idea of magnetic levitation by Professor Eric Laithwaite in A Royal Institution Christmas Lectures To Young People in 1966.  I must have been 5 at the time. I still remember the black and white … Continue reading →

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