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Hi everyone
At last I am free to enter into this new techno experience. Firstly I want to give you all a huge THANK YOU for the way you have welcomed me into the group and for your present to me on my special birthday. I was really touched by such a thoughtful gesture and I will tend my plants knowing they came from my new friends.
I have enjoyed the book I am reading at present 'Empress Orchid' mainly because I went to China in 2000 and was absolutely fascinated by the Forbidden City. However I think the fictional biography is contrived - you can almost see the joins where the author has used historical documents and information to weave it into a very tediously detailed story, some of which I feel one has to suspend disbelief. I will try to bring along some photos of the forbidden city if I can locate them easily. Mary