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Hot Chocolate Anyone ?

Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor25 May 2016, 9:48 pm AEST

Hot Chocolate Anyone ?

Hi All

There is a thread operating on the Lived Experience Forum under Night Shift where members who are having trouble sleeping for any reason give a bit of a shout-out, to see if there is anyone else sleepless and looking for company. It's been such a great thing, I thought I would start one over here too.

I have had the odd few nights where I have woken up on and off, and my kids have been having a bit of trouble some nights too, depending on what has happened during the day.

Being a carer can be lonely too, so if you are making an after-midnight cup of something hot, and wonder who else might be doing that too, maybe have a look-in here and see if anyone else is about.

☕️

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SmcSenior Contributor05 Jan 2018, 11:19 am AEDT

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Might go for the search bar option then, because my own travels are a few years back now, and no idea if or when I'll be going again.

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CatcakesSenior Contributor05 Jan 2018, 11:27 am AEDT

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I enjoyed your knowledable writing about China as I lived there for a few years and travelled to some of the rural provinces
@Smc

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SmcSenior Contributor05 Jan 2018, 11:56 am AEDT

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Thank you @Catcakes. My experience is much more limited, but I try to pay attention to what I see and hear. I think you get a very different view of a country when you're spending time in everyday places with everyday people, rather than doing the tourist routes. As much as it would still be fascinating to see some of the tourist spots, particularly some of the historic sites. I've had a few stunned reactions from Chinese friends when they've found out that I've been to rural Guangxi but not any of the popular spots, but if I had to choose between the two, I wouldn't change it. The mountains out there are hard places to live, but so beautiful, and the people are amazing. This was the only route in to one village, and it was 1-2 kms or more of climbing. Others were even more remote.

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CatcakesSenior Contributor05 Jan 2018, 12:59 pm AEDT

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I agree @Smc,
I was lucky enough to experience some of the
Rural provinces and participate briefly in the locals every day lives. I loved it.
I could have lived there longer but the work ran out for us.
My kids also loved living there.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor05 Jan 2018, 1:11 pm AEDT

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I knew someone else living ex-pat in China for a while ..... fried scorpions on sticks anyone. ?? The images she sent back were amazing. We have so much to learn about cuisine ...... particularly survival cuisine ......

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CatcakesSenior Contributor05 Jan 2018, 1:15 pm AEDT

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Some good Chinese friends of ours told some stories about scarcity of food before the cultural revolution @Faith-and-Hope.
Being fed mice by her grandmother to fatten her up. No shortage of food there now but still people live in dire poverty of course.
So much for communism.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor05 Jan 2018, 1:24 pm AEDT

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Greece had a civil war following immediately on from two world wars @Catcakes, with fighting in the streets and decimation of entire towns and villages where they stood in occupation to the occupying forces ..... occupying troops took such a huge percentage of the food resources in the capital city that 100’s died of starvation .......

The survival stories and what the people ate are passed forward, so Greeks are excellent foragers for wild food, which is a wonderful positive outcome from such terrible times.

I have learnt a lot, including about cooking stalks and leaves of vegetables that in our modern culture are thrown away.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor05 Jan 2018, 1:42 pm AEDT

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Personally I’m not taken with the thought of eating mice and scorpions ...... but I have also never been that desperate.

Snails are a little known part of Greek cuisine ..... and “wild mountain greens” are some of what are considered common weeds here ...... and I have been brave enough to eat both of those ...... 😏

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CatcakesSenior Contributor05 Jan 2018, 1:52 pm AEDT

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We’re so lucky @Faith-and-Hope to be living in these times in the land of plenty. In China I was overwhelmed in the supermarket by the huge selection of rice, a whole aisle!
I travelled through the former Yugoslavia in the early 80’s and there was not much variety of food at all.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor05 Jan 2018, 2:00 pm AEDT

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I have spoken to someone from Russia @Catcakes who said that it is only around 15 years or so ago that the shops and supermarkets had only one choice of anything - tomato sauce, beans, milk, eggs, etc and even clothing ..... one type of coat, shoes, etc ...... one type of car .......

Now they have the same sort of range of choice that we have, and it is utterly mind-blowing.

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