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Fruit in China

Living and working in China provides wonderful opportunities to study informally the way that the Chinese people live and work. It has been an extra ordinary experience that I will treasure for the rest of...

9 comments    health vegetables fruit
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Keeping warm in bed

I travel quite a bit and often find that when I get cold (either at home or travelling) I find it very hard to sleep or settle. In Australia I travel with my own home made wheat bag - which I made. It is a...

0 comments    travel rice cold
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How do you know if you're dehydrated?

I'm no expert in this field but on several occasions I have been aware of my own dehydration, and so now am tuned to my own body responses. I seldom get headaches - but I learned when I was teaching a class...

0 comments    health water headache
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Fake Degrees - Employers beware!

It seems that more and more people are taking advantage of the on-line-get your-degree programs that promise degrees without the need to study. Many employers are being duped by these documents, because we...

0 comments    education university employers
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How Do I deal With A BiPolar person In The Family?

The illness Bipolar was called Manic Depressive - which probably is more descriptive. People with bipolar illness have great swings of mood. They can be as "high as a kite" with enthusiasm and excitement"...

12 comments    health advice family
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Collecting Obituaries

It is becoming addictive.  My interest in Obituaries.  I am collecting the "Obits" from the daily paper and filing them. I've written one for publication now.  And several "advance obituaries" - in...

0 comments    read obituaries hstory
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Does the word "obituary" scare you?

I'm not obsessed by death and dying, but as a nurse I've seen my fair share of it up close. But my major interest is in history - family history. I like to read life stories. I like to write life stories. ...

3 comments    family history
Brisbane City from the Plough Inn, South Bank, the venue for Expo 88.59

Virtual Tour around Australia

I have several objectives on this trour. One of course is to visit many towns that I have never visited. I have been to all the capital cities on the mainland, and have visited Alice Springs right in the...

1 comment    travel australia adventure
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Dodgem on China's Roads

I have been living in China since the beginning of 2008. I came to a city in Zhejiang province to teach English at a college. I don't drive in China - I cannot (the laws make it difficult for foreigners to...

0 comments    automotive china drivers
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The people of China

Let me start by saying that I do know people in Australia who are Chinese. I guess not very well, merely passing acquaintances really. I'd read quite a bit about China and its people, but nothing prepared...

4 comments    travel people history
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