A refreshing breeze swung through Hong Kong a couple of weeks ago heralding the arrival of Autumn. It's as if Autumn took a deep breath and very gently blew away the heat and the humidity of Summer and continues even now to be a lovely cooling presence as if to personally ensure that Summer won't return. Even the pollution has eased off a little. In relation to Summer it is hard to put into words just how very wonderful it feels to be cool. Maybe we could rename the seasons of Summer and Autumn and call them Hot-&-Bothered and Blessed-Relief respectively. The only thing about Blessed-Relief is that it seems to have brought the Commoncole with it and some of us have been gallantly fighting off this lurgy including me. I think I'm on the mend now. I really have to be because...
Mum and Vicki are arriving in Hong Kong late tomorrow!
I'm so excited. I have an Old-Knees-Friendly itinerary planned which leans more towards your Night Harbour Cruise With Buffet Dinner and High-Teas style of activities and less of your Trekking Up and Down Mountains type of thing. I'm having the week off work and will be staying with mum and Vicki in a holiday flat in Kennedy Town which is about 15 minutes on the tram from the CBD on Hong Kong Island. Nicely central. I've charged up all my camera batteries so you can look forward to plenty of pics being uploaded of our traipsing around Hong Kong. Woot woo!
I mentioned our resident dogs in my latest newsletter (if you didn't get it and would like to be on the mailing list click here to drop me an email and let me know). Here's a little clip of Merry and Pippin waiting outside my door in the morning in anticipation of a W-A-L-K... They were a little put off by the camera, so the greeting was more subdued than usual, (not as much jumping up and bowling me over) but you get the idea...
For more pics of Merry and Pippin (including a walk we went on this afternoon) click here. And for a fuller collection of DJ and Liz's wedding photos, click here.
And while you're looking at pics, if you'd like to have a look at some of the photos the girls in my photography class have been taking, they have each started a web album of their favourite 3 images from each lesson. Go to 'Links' to your left and find Georgie's Pics and Hilary's Pics. They are learning little things to improve their photography even though they only have point and shoot digital cameras. I think they are doing really well at it.
