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EDITOR’S NOTE
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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY!
8-9 AUGUST Lan Kwai Fong Beer & Music
Fest,
22-24 AUGUST Slide The City, Kai Tak
Cruise Terminal,
4-6 SEPTEMBER Hamlet at The Lyric
Theatre,
5 SEPTEMBER The Kowloon Bazaar at The
Regal Kowloon Hotel,
20 SEPTEMBER Step Out for Children
Charity Walk at Cyperport,
25 SEPTEMBER – 11 OCTOBER
Singin' in the Rain, The Lyric Theatre,
27 SEPTEMBER Mid-Autumn Festival,
various venues,
There are two popular pastimes I remember from the late 60s and
70s: one was macramé, a craft that involved making textiles from
knotting; the second was elastics, also called “French skipping”,
a game in which a player jumped in and over a large length of
elastic drawn between two people – the circle of elastic was then
raised according to the skill level of the player.
Recently, I feel that I’ve been involved in both of these again during my daily
“job” of walking our three dogs. When you have a garden, it’s something you
don’t have to think of if you only have tiny dogs. But now at least three times a
day they need to have a “toilet walk”.
We start off in fairly orderly fashion, with all the leads separate, and me armed
only with a plastic bag and the lift card. The rush into the lift usually results in
a little bit of a tangle because Riley (the smallest) gets very excited and does
a couple of circles. But I usually have time to untangle myself by the time we
get to the ground floor.
After only a few stops for “wees”, the leads are twisted, knotted and half their
length – perfect macramé strings, in fact. Then the dogs head off in different
directions, usually to chase interesting smells, and I find myself having to leap
over the leads at different heights. It gets complicated, even when I call on the
remnants of my elastics skills – I’m not as agile as I was at age eight!
These things are sent to challenge us. It’s a bit like it being August already –
how did that happen? I was supposed to have taken up painting, pottery and
Pilates, learnt to play the violin and cook Thai food by now.
But I have moved house and office within four months, and
both of those have slowed things down a bit. This was the
first office move that I didn’t get too involved in, so I guess
that’s an achievement!
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