….. Da Ren Fa, our local shopping centre, doesn't mean 'Big People's Market' as I previously supposed. In fact it's even wrong in the Roman alphabet. It should be Da Run Fa. I've been told the characters mean 'Big Profit Output', which makes sense, but the nearest I can find to the middle one means “intercalation”, an astronomical term which doesn't make sense here at all..... ….Sun. looks a little foggy but turns out to be a drizzly rain. Lunch with George & family on Sunday. Hare, Chicken soup, fish, beef, vegetables, do fu, rice.... They are all so courteous. Drizzle has turned to heavier rain with the odd flake of snow. I decide to leave my bike & go back on the bus. Qiao Ming, George's father, walks to the bus stop holding an umbrella
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