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Month: December 2011

Rained out

On 18/12/2011 By Garden CorrespondentIn Uncategorized3 Comments

It was rainy on Friday, and since I had the car and was going to be driving everyone back to the garden, we decided that it might be better to see how things looked on Saturday. It was pretty demoralizing, so when we awoke to clearer weather on Saturday morning, I wasted no time in …

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Gratuitous baby photo

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Forgotten pleasure

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Every weekend since she's gotten here, my mother has commented on how lucky I am to have the garden to return to after a week in the city. I had been looking at the whole arrangement differently, seeing it more as an exile from the garden. Last weekend, I decided to try on my mother's …

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Marketing

On 04/12/2011 By Garden CorrespondentIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

When I was teaching in Harbin, I used to get up at 5 to do Tai Chi with a group of retirees in the university parking lot, and then we would all wander off to do some marketing. At that hour, the elderly pretty much had the run of the neighborhood, buying fresh milk off …

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All he wants for Christmas

On 03/12/2011 By Garden CorrespondentIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

No prizes for guessing what's on top of Baki's list this year!

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