Week 40 - Trick or Treat

Here we all are dressed up for Halloween.  My family are all pirates and my friend's family are all witches and wizards.  We had a great night trick or treating around the Green Villas compound, and the kids collected a huge amount of loot!!

Happy Halloween!!

Week 35 - Fresh Vegetables

 

Look at those shiitake mushrooms, aren't they fabulous?? 

This little truck, which is a three wheeler comes loaded up with the freshest of fresh vegetables you've ever seen and sells them on the street corner, just outside the supermarket, where really you have no idea how old the fresh produce is. You just have to look and you can see it's amazing!!  And cheaper than from the supermarket too!!

Week 21 - Chairs on trikes

For a few days in a row, these three tricycles, well laden with cane chairs of all descriptions were seen pootling around Jinqiao.  Each morning they were parked here fully laden, but by the late afternoon their stock had diminished and they trundled off again.

The stacking of the chairs was truly amazing, an intricate array of ropes holding them in place.  I never saw any transaction occurring, but they were definitely for sale!!

Week 17 - Founders Day

Founders Day was a day for our school to celebrate its British links, and did so by having a day full of carnival or summer fair activities; including a merry-go-round, sideshows, face painting, sports games and of course a hog roast. The kids loved running around on the field and then we sat to watch and listen to a performance of the combined choir and orchestra, from both the senior and junior schools - incredible talent capped off with an impressive fireworks display.

Week 9 - Chicken anyone?

This man, just to the right of the bike, sells these chickens, yes, that one on top and all of those in the cage on the back of his bike.  He will kill and defeather it in about 5 mins, collecting the feathers and blood in that billy hanging at the back; ready to go home and cook. 

Can't get fresher than that!!  But not so sure about any free range standards being met either.

I love his coat just hanging off the side of the cage.

Week 2 - Jie Jie's 5th Birthday, Jinqiao

Happy Birthday Princess!!

Week 1 - Australia Day, Jinqiao

Back in China, and the first post for my new blog with the Welsh theme, what better than to talk about than Australia Day!!   Look at our cuties with their kangaroo flag tattoos on their faces. We are in the midst of the Chinese New Year festivities and we were lucky enough to have the most spectacular firework display outside our window which we said was for Australia Day, but really was for wealth and fortune in this lucky lunar year of the dragon!!