A cute mobile shop and a couple of chance encounters.

Well it was Friday.  I decided to go for an ealry morning nordic walk.  I enjoyed it and no one shouted 'Have you lost your skis mate?".  I reckon this is for several reasons.  Firstly no one here speaks English that well, secondly humour does not work like that here and thridly as I was walking thorug the park I was passing people whipping big electric tops, and peole walking backwards rapidly so I wasnt that much out of place!  Anyway, I finally returned home and dicide go to town to pick up supplies.  On the way I noticed a mobile shop and had to get a few photos of it!  It was not much bigger thatn one of those plastic "Little Tykes" ones.






After my littel photoshoot with the shop, I carried on into town, but on teh way I was stopped by soemone wanting to take photos!

 

 three photos when they uload






As I was passing the park I heard a violin.  It must be 'violin man' as everyone else play a erhu, which is a kind of two stringed violin like thing that looks like this and sounds similar to a violin, but not quite so rich a sound.


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an erhu

 So I wandered over and there he was with four meimei. (women)  Three of were dancing and waving red hankerchief like things whilst another sang.  I called her laoban (boss), becasue she telling everone else what to do!
four meimei and 'violin man'
 After a while of watching and soem serious bossing by laoban, violin man suiggested that we go to eat food.  I agreed and offered to pay.  Waste of time.  He was paying!  So off we went.  The meimei really were salt of teh earth and we had a good laugh eating photographing and singing.
Laobanon the left and two other meimei unposed

violin man and a meimei

laoban and meimei (posed!)  their choice!

laoban and meimei (unposed!) 

three mei mei
 Ater a bit of a riotous singsong in the restaurant we went outside to pose for photos!  Real salt of the earth types these ladies, and good fun!
posing by the falg outside the shop

posing by the flagoutside the shop







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