After storming the first place at Guangfu trail race on 22 November, I had the privilege of interviewing the star: Booker Liu 1/ How long have you been running? I started running in 2012, I ran a marathon and trained for 3 months. Before that, I was doing other sports but not running. My first marathon time was 3 hours, 30 minutes. 2/ How has Suzhou Striders helped your running and what attracted you to Suzhou Striders? I moved to Suzhou in 2018, no other friends were running

Welcome to my blog! I'm an expat based in Suzhou, China. If you haven't heard of Suzhou before, it's a like a sister city to Shanghai, about two hours drive West. I like to blog about navigating family life in a foreign culture and our travels, (before the covid-19 travel bans of course)! Some of the early entires are about our experiences of Penang Island, Malaysia as it was there that we found ourselves as crisis migrants in the first sweep of the Covid-19 pandemic. God put

Street lamps feebly attempted to brighten the dim skyline punctuated with cranes and towering heaps of rubble. The perfect setting for a quick getaway to Shanghai. Our taxi dropped us off outside the block of serviced apartments: http://www.movejia.com/properties/primcasa/ . The middle of nowhere- ness seemed to shout from the road sides so we decided to checkout ‘Laowai’ Street https://www.tripadvisor.com.sg/Attraction_Review-g308272-d7141879-Reviews-Laowai_Jie-Shanghai.htm

What do you do with all those leftover, over-ripe persimmon fruits that you accumulate? (Or is that just me?) Actually, I rarely buy them, a friend gave me some and they were quite securely in the too squishy to be enjoyable to eat stage and so, like most other over-ripe fruits in my home, they winded up in a cake. it was cinch to make and I added orange- flavoured icing on the top which gave it an extra layer of sticky yumminess. Oooh and it's a fat-free sponge! For more fa

The Moon festival holiday approached with unprecedented speed this year, perhaps as due to Covid-19 lockdowns, the children have only just returned to an open school, it feels too soon for them to be home again and school-free. Fortunate to have a husband also in education (as a teacher), I generally look forward to school holiday breaks knowing that at least some of the time will not be a solo-parenting challenge. My husband’s school had advised against any travel outside of