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Category Archives: Independent Shop
Our Daughter Hits Shanghai
It was over a year before our daughter Rosalind made it out to see us in Shanghai. For the first half of our first year that we had been living as expats in China Rozy had been doing her final … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Changning, Independent Shop, People's Square
Tagged Books, children, education, mandarin, oxford
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Silk King
A couple of weekends before we left for the UK I went in search of some Chinese silk to be made into blouses. I had brought a couple of one-sized silk blouses out with me to Shanghai as a general cover-up … Continue reading
Posted in Independent Shop, People's Square
Tagged Fish and Chips, Food, Marks and Spencer, Mr Harry, Silk, Silk King
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Pearls From The Orient 