As I wrote this, I had the song 'The Long & Winding Road...' in my head. I guess that's an analogy for life....but anyway...I digress....   Minx at Gelli I arrived in Hong Kong on November 3 rd 2005 with a boyfriend, two suitcases each and a hope and a dream. Twenty years later, that boyfriend is married to someone else, I’m married to somebody else as well, plus I’ve acquired four dogs, two stepdaughters and a lifetime’s worth of memories and experiences of living and loving Asia.   The...

My gym, just after it was built.   After ten years as a personal trainer, last month I trained my last clients in Hong Kong. There were tears.   I worked in sales and marketing for twenty years (in corporate and then working for myself) before I retrained and turned my love of fitness and health into my career and vocation.   I started off running (with imposter syndrome- ha!) bootcamps, then visiting client’s houses to train them, which was fine, but lugging around equipment, clients not...

I learned the incredible power of yarrow recently first hand, when it was the only thing that stopped my husband’s bad nosebleeds. Even the ENT docs were dumbfounded. With all their tools and modern methods to stop bleeding and they all failed. However the humble herb yarrow prevailed and stopped the bleeding fast!   Yarrow was used extensively in World War One on the battlefield to stem blood loss and help heal wounds, but it’s benefits and power go beyond just stemming blood flow, although...