Ukelele in the park and beef noodles.

Last night I got home late after all the tea drinking.  Just as I was about to go to bed I got a message from Jessie, a Chinese girl in Liverpool.  She is forever seeking relationship advice and we have some really good chats, though why she seeks that sort of advice from me, I'm not quite sure as I've not had many!  However, being English,  I do have 'insider knoweldge'.  Anyway we chatted for about an hour and I started to fall asleep.  So we finished the conversation.  Apparently she is coming back to China in September and does not want to because she thinks she will loose all the freedoms she has in the UK.  Maybe we will meet. We are both up for the idea, but her home is Beijing, and its unlikely we will.
So I got up a bit later than usual and didn't eat breakfast straight away.  There was a message on my phone from Sherrie.  She said that she was walking down by the river and it was nice and cool.  I asked her if she had had breakfast... she hadn't.  So I invited her.  We met in Fanjingshan Park and went to a street stall.



Sherrie at the little breakfast table at the street stall

The street stall from behind the 'counter'.
I had some warm soya milk and what was like a cross between a doughnut and a profiterole.  Sherrie had rice porridge and one of the things I had.


Warm soya milk and the doughnut thing ..now cut up.
We left for the park, went to the music area, talked a little Chinese and played a little music.
Me, the ukelele and Sherrie, not necessarily in that order!
Sherrie then got a call from her husband and we met at a local beef noodle restaurant and had lunch.  His English name was Star!  Again we chatted this time mainly in English.  I was invited to go with them to a place they both know: 凤凰 or   Fènghuáng.  We still have to arrange a time and date.  I went home and popped in at the woodmans shop.  I told him I would be around later.  He seemed happy.

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