Category Archives: Environment

Hitchhiking in China – Very Doable

Posted on April 8, 2013 by cecilie

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Sold! Complete With No Buffaloes

Posted on December 19, 2012 by cecilie

Yesterday I saw a rather disturbing sight down at the huge dinner table of Pui O’s water buffalo, the grasslands down by Pui O Beach. Surveyors were setting up boundaries around one of my favourite vistas. I went over and … Continue reading →

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Beautification of Pui O Continues

Posted on December 5, 2012 by cecilie

A few weeks ago I posted the above picture on Facebook, wondering what this container which, to put it mildly, had seen better days, could possibly be doing there.One morning it was just there, resting on bricks. Rusted through and … Continue reading →

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Thanking and Trying To Give

Posted on November 22, 2012 by cecilie

Today is thanksgiving, and like every year I wish I was an American today, sitting around a huge table groaning with turkey and what not, telling people how thankful I am because they are in my life. It’s such a … Continue reading →

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They Are Greening – I Am Screaming

Posted on October 19, 2012 by cecilie

It had to happen. With recent humiliations such as failing in its bid to build a “super” prison with 7,000 inmates on an island just outside Mui Wo, failing to build a “super” columbarium with I don’t know how many … Continue reading →

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Election, schmelection…

Posted on September 4, 2012 by cecilie

The last couple of weeks I have, or rather my post box has been drowning in advertisements from people of whom I have never heard, asking me to vote for them. They all look curiously the same; middle-aged geezers with … Continue reading →

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Dogs I Know III

Posted on August 6, 2012 by cecilie

Walking around in the mornings with my excellent, faithful and beautiful hound Lasi (NOT named after a famous Scottish TV hero but a Chinese card game) I realise I probably know more dogs than people. Sad as, but true! So … Continue reading →

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Chewing Through Scenery, One Tree at the Time

Posted on June 8, 2012 by cecilie

This is how they do it: Take a thicket in sleepy backwater Pui O and cut down all the trees. Then fill the empty space with building rubble from all the village houses that have been stripped bare to the … Continue reading →

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Victory: Rare Bout of Sanity Hits Hong Kong Lawmakers!

Posted on April 20, 2012 by cecilie

Seems like Lantau is saved (for now) – all the parties shot down the incinerator proposal at Legco today. Rest in peace, idiotic ideas from the environmental ‘protection’ department! So we brace ourselves for the next onslaught, because they have … Continue reading →

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To Boldly and Stupidly Go

Posted on April 14, 2012 by cecilie

On Ching Ming I continued my chronicling of the coastline of Hong Kong Island for my video Conquering Hongkie, and boldly went etc. with my faith-and skillful camerawoman L. And verily, the coastline is full of surprises when one cares … Continue reading →

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