that was quick

That was quick. After my unfortunate discovery on Tuesday afternoon, I got up this morning, showered and put the kettle on and all that, walked into the study and turned the computer on, and thought, that’s odd….

I could hear banging, crashing and crumbling sounds. I looked out the window. Nothing going on in our yard. Looked over to the left, and there it was: Workers on the rooves of those condemned houses, tearing off tiles, planks and beams and dropping them into the houses, smashing at brickwork with sledgehammers. So there is to be no reprieve.

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wangbo

A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.

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