Well, it has done nothing but rain now for 2/3 days, and doesn't look like stopping.This is the real England.A guy (with a filipino wife)dropping off his son at school the other day said to me" I bet you wish you hadn't come back now" Of course at times like that I have to agree. He went on to say that the perceived notion of back home- long summer days, having a pint in a beer garden, walking through the countryside-is a load of bollocks- this is the reality he said cold, grey miserable mornings, with one nice day a year. This may sound quite depressing to you, but actually made me feel happy. It was nice to be dropping off my son at school, moaning about the weather to a big fat bloke with a filipino wife. In Hong Kong everyone is too busy to stop and chat in the morning. Over the last few weeks I have learnt that this guy is 58, on the dole, just waiting for retirement.He has been to the Philippines a couple of times and will go again next year.His wife was his'penpal' before he met her, and they would like to go back and live in the Philippines.
The big news here this morning is how Pedro(I gave him this name) the South American parrot caught Bird Flu whilst in quarantine here in the UK! This was quite puzzling as bird flu had not been found here or in South America. It was later discovered that Pedro had been kept in quarantine with a couple of Taiwanese birds, let's call them Kitty and Pussy. Anyway it seems that pedro caught the highly infectious bird flu from his Chinese friends. This story has a strangely familiar ring to it.Latino catches fatal disease after spending night with Taiwanese twins.
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