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    Default Months to go before I Woodwork

    The power of the internet is allowing me to post from China.

    I left on the night flight on the 17th from Sydney. Will be two months before I return home. So far have recovered from the flight as I do not sleep on the plane. Just me as I never been able to. I do not think I am the only person that is not able to sleep on a plane.

    The flight did have a little bit of turbulence at some stage but not too much.

    Landing temperature in Beijing was minus 8 degrees Celsius. This is the first time that I have ever been in such a cold place. Currently 5 degrees so ok for me as I am wearing thermals.

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    I should add that I am in Langfang.

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    Holiday or work?

    If work do you get the opportunity to do the tourist thing?

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    Pure holiday.

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    Go for it - take plenty of pix and give us a rundown when you get back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Christos View Post
    Landing temperature in Beijing was minus 8 degrees Celsius. This is the first time that I have ever been in such a cold place. Currently 5 degrees so ok for me as I am wearing thermals.
    Positively balmy

    'twas -18° C (-30° with the wind chill) where I was on Jan 18.
    didn't feel a temperature above -5 for something like 10 days.
    regards from Alberta, Canada

    ian

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    Holiday my foot he means Honeymoon meet the in-laws

    Have great trip Christos & Bai

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    Christos just think your in a good buying position right now for pen kits, tools, shoes, watches, tools, pen kits.

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    No Photo's - It Didnt Happen.





    Just joking have a great time in China, such a big country and the history "wow"

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    I will try and update as and when I can. I purchased a sim card that I am using on my phone. So I have internet access via the phone but not the best.
    Yes I am here to meet the in-laws. I have met them before so not entirely nervous.

    I woke very early almost three hours ago. No internet access so I started to read a book on Epidemiology, Study design and data analysis. Second Edition. By Mark Woodward.
    Started in the middle of chapter two. Interesting book, some 820 pages. Not a field that I work in or wish to. But there are others that thrive on this including the person that owns this book. A friend of Bai's.

    Another aspect of being so long away from the tools is the factor of rust. Well G15 was used on everything. The garage was cleaned up, yes I know the optimal word is cleaned.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Christos View Post
    I will try and update as and when I can. I purchased a sim card that I am using on my phone. So I have internet access via the phone but not the best.
    Yes I am here to meet the in-laws. I have met them before so not entirely nervous.

    I woke very early almost three hours ago. No internet access so I started to read a book on Epidemiology, Study design and data analysis. Second Edition. By Mark Woodward.
    Started in the middle of chapter two. Interesting book, some 820 pages. Not a field that I work in or wish to. But there are others that thrive on this including the person that owns this book. A friend of Bai's.

    Another aspect of being so long away from the tools is the factor of rust. Well G15 was used on everything. The garage was cleaned up, yes I know the optimal word is cleaned.

    of that you could have done before departing.

    Well to keep you in the loop you have missed a top 2 days down at Sturt school wood n tools and demos

    Next weekend 3 days more wood n tools at Artisans Retreat.

    Other than that all is normal Pat stuffing up, Nick making pens NZ buying his 4th lathe

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    Quote Originally Posted by wheelinround View Post
    of that you could have done before departing.
    You are right I could have taken photos of the cleaning but that's boring to see.

    Maybe when I return and the dust settles in the garage.

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    Some photos as mention

    Attachment 198862

    Confirmation that I am in China, no idea what it says.


    These are some dumplings that were made with the family. See how the first batch are all the same and the ones that I made are not.

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    For those that are familar with hotpot did that last night.

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    You get an individual pot boiling in front of you and you take some items from the dish and place in your boiling pot. Let is cook for a little bit and then move the item from the hotpot to the sauce bowl. Then eat it.

    Afterwards I had some fruit,

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    I was told this is an orange and can be eaten skin and all. They are very sweet and I ended up eating 4 or 5.

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    This is a banana which I also had eaten but only one as I was full.

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    Wow Bai must be excellent cook or her mum.

    either you now the size of a Sumo or its a tiny orange and Banana.

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    I say her dad's a better cook, as I am learning from him.

    It is a tiny orange and banana no bigger then my thumb. That's why you see my mits in the photo.

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    Normally when I go on holidays I loose weight.

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