Archive for November, 2004

Pneumonia

Saturday, November 27th, 2004

For the last 5 days, I’ve been stuck in Mackay memorial hospital with a rather nasty bout of pneumonia. Although we didn’t realise it at the time, it seems that I’ve been suffering from mycoplasma pneumonia for the last month; at some point this became complicated by me also catching a viral infection (adenovirus) of […]

Water sports

Sunday, November 14th, 2004

Just outside the concert hall at the CKS Memorial Hall are a set of about 50 little fountains which you can walk (or run) between and play with. They were very interesting, but I soon found out that peering into the fountain hole just before the water starts spurting out can be a mistake. After […]

Beside the seaside

Sunday, November 7th, 2004

We spent this weekend on the East coast of Taiwan in Toucheng(頭城), Ilan. We had booked a house which overlooked the ocean for the weekend which 4 families could descend on (with children aged 1, 1, 1 & 4).
After everyone had a splash in the ocean (with some people getting wetter and dirtier than others), […]

Flying Cows in Miaoli

Monday, November 1st, 2004

This weekend we went on a little expedition down to the centre of Taiwan. On Sunday we inspected some old railway lines, and visiting the world’s biggest producer of wooden ducks (where Mummy showed her artistic ability … with some help from me) in Miaoli county. Then on Monday we visited the ‘Flying Cow Farm’.
Unfortunately, […]