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On new year eve, two troubadours, miss Cole and Emmanuelle the sunday best, doing carolling at the Béthanie and the University Hall

(two troubadours composing lyrics)

The University Hall (former Nazareth) staircase

Just at dusk Emmanuelle entering Béthanie, opposite U hall that used to be HKU campus. The beautiful sunset that is sparklling on the harbour at pokfulam shines on emmanuelle's face...

Cheshire against Gothic façades of Béthanie's chapel

Troubadour playing and singing carols

Sweet sunset at the Béthanie through a Gothic arch.... I adore these subdued colours of rosy twilght. We enjoyed the ride to the Béthanie briefly at dusk this Sunday. As if into the threshold of a twilight zone, there was something almost touching in the air at the Béthanie at my discovery. (Alain le Pichon has revealed to us in his research a hidden sanctuary at the heart of the past University campus). During this adventure, the wind wafting in from the coast was so strong that emmanuelle has jumped over once but miraculously she stood on her own!

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Christmas is in the air.... The gang of girls, the chosen choir, are eager to try on their party clothes and rehearsing the carols by playing them from the stereo, whilst the others are busy with their own life whether in their rooms, or outside or abroad.

... when mom announces that a piece of drama, music of that night ... will require nomination from them to play the roles... Mom hasn't quite decided who's who... Everybody become nervous and quite anxious to get a major role...

Cherie, sister of Beatrice d'Este Sforza, Italian blythe, whose ancestors are the courtly inventors of the game of tarot, thinks that she deserves the role of Magdalene, the virgin mother embrassing the cradle of baby Jesus, or the soprano ot the christmas carols

The newly arrived member of family, Diva, whose vocation is a rock star, naturally shares the thought of Cherie. She must be confined the singing role... She is dressed in Russian, Kremlin nobility style

Anais, the 'nose' who comes from the Provence in France , is Mom's favourite girl because of her being francaise...

Cherie and Diva chat in a corner and almost come into terms of sharing the two major roles...

Anais is not a jealous girl who has her self righteousness

The two girls talk about strategies to win mom's favour...

while Cheshire, overhearing their conspiracy, steps in... who always got authority as she is a kenner...

She summons Anais to a reunion round the fireplace. "Given my majesty as a kenner, and my musical talents, I can tell you that am nominated the choir leader and the Magdalen role, I'll play both."

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Dear Santa,

love, Cheshire
In these secret codes, Cheshire wrote santa her xmas wish.

And look at her trunky tweedy helmet (it's the handknitted one by magmag), she really adores it!

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Before the other sisters become aware of the arrival of the xmas tree, Cheshire starts hanging up a big sock and secretly reflects on her letter to santa

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It's her first xmas here. Cheshire is startlled and thrilled by the delivery of the christmas tree this year. It's a crystal christmas tree!

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On the first of December, Cheshire is the first girl who senses the footsteps of christmas... What will this christmas be like?

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(a Hong Kong story)

Cole the cool photographer: Let me film you, dear fellow Hong Kong toys...

Who cares London bridge is falling down

Taking a peek... To the lighthouse

The pleasant peasant at the farmhouse... Animals go round and round

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unnoticed, my green african violet has been crowned...

tint of rare mauve in a corner

Green prevailing, Cheshire Cole sunbathing at Largo do Carmo, Avenida da Praia along the taipa coastline

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On a Wednesday, Cheshire, the English Blythe in the family, decided to take the helicopter across the water (attention! she is prompt to seasick), to a day’s excursion to the heritage Largo de Santo Agostiho, Macao, to breathe some European air…

The cobblestone pavement, emblematic of streetscape in the area, unifies the group of warm and sunny architectures that form part of the world heritage centre in this once Portguuese enclave.

Cheshire’s intended destination was however the Theatro Dom Pedro V.
The green stucco façade, portico of the neo-classical styled theatre.

Beside the tattered Theatro, now undergoing restoration work, a side door led her to the club restaurant, Leon Restaurante Tennis Civil.

The fully opened green shutters allow some natural light into the hall and treated her with a view of the narrow streetscape and full-of-details residences in the neighbourhood.

There was something, that of the taste of fallen nobility, as people said, under the crystal lamp of the quite out of dimension Restaurante, with its colourful paved walls, polished wooden floor and scattered tables.

Practising ballet in the colossal hall

Indulgence in a Macanese ovened brioche… .

Simple, unpretentious choice of 3 menu. Cheshire asked immediately for the a la carte and was told there was none... It turned out that the Spaghetti Bolognese was amazingly well done au four. The chocolate mousse was amazing, too...


And aftermath...

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Mom : "Cheshire, have you practised your music today?"
Cheshire: "i'm already a talent, mom..."

Cheshire shouted out loud from the door to her sisters, "don't disturb me anyone..." and put on some harp music on her stereo... "I deserve my magnificent chaise longue ..."
Everyone in the house either secretly admire or envy Cheshire's talents and rudiments, not knowing that she is sometimes a couch potato...

Miss Cole wore a creamy pouf dress (blythehautecouture).
Her little interior: chaise longue and bed from muy muy bonita, mix-matched with cinema princess stock chair; lavender scented wallpaper from crabtree & evelyn; persian carpet from hollywood road