Our Series Unusual Gifts

In our popular series Unusual Gifts we proudly present Sungflower Fream.

What is this sungflower fream, you may ask? Why, it’s of course a notebook!

The day my friend Jo gave me this gift, I almost cried with joy. It was so beautiful! Not only was the notebook (筆記薄 bat gei bou – pen chronicle ledger) called Sungflower Fream and decorated with photos of daisies, but the cover came with a message. (Or poem.)

“I have so little art, words leop from me with incoherent eagerness, or strmble our.”

She got it from a stationery shop in beautiful Toi Saan(台山 – Platform Mountain) in Guangdong Province.
Although it was Chinese New Year’s Day, the stationery shop was open and bursting with objects and people. The book was bound in plastic, crying out for beer-fuelled card games, I felt. So now I keep it on a special shelf and take it out only for trips to the mainland with three people and card games.

The book has many empty pages, and I’m hungry for Sichuan food and cards. Let’s go!

過年 (Go Lin – Pass Year/Chinese New Year)
川菜 (Chyun choi – Sichuan food)