the view from fanling


idiosyncratic observations on life,

the world and everything in between

Sunday, 14 February 2016

saint edna

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One hundred years ago today, a girl was born in Elswick, in the west end of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Septimus and Eliza Holmes. The ninth of ...
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Thursday, 11 February 2016

super dooper

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Anyone wanting to learn English nowadays has access to huge online resources to help them to achieve their goal. These range from formal cou...
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Monday, 1 February 2016

a rough guide to world travel

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healthcare If you develop pneumonia while visiting Estonia, if you pick up malaria on a trip to Bulgaria, don’t rely on that quack fro...
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Sunday, 24 January 2016

brrr!

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I’ve spent 25 of the last 42 winters in Hong Kong, and I’ve never known it to have been as cold as it’s been this weekend. And it’s set to...
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Dennis Hodgson
I'm an ex-geologist, an ex-Outward Bound instructor and administrator, an ex-journalist, and an ex-book editor. I still consider myself a scientist. I'm now retired and spend seven months of each year in Fanling, a town in Hong Kong's New Territories, and five months in Penrith, my home town in England.
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