Taking a short blogging break this week. Hope all is well with you all. Stay safe. 

Gong hei fat choy as they say in Cantonese  or i n  Mandarin , xin nian kuai le  (pronounced shin nee-an kwai le) 2021 is the Chinese Year ...

I have just finished reading The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. Have you read it?  This is a fascinating history about the produc...

  Hi everyone, I can hardly believe it is February already. Where has the first month of the year gone? I really didn't think back in Ma...