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Chandler keeps making more and more friends in the park.

We ran into a grandpa in the park today that rides around on a very impressive motorised scooter-chair-tricycle type contraption.

We have seen him once before when he stopped me to tell me off for not wearing a coat on a cold morning. Today he beeped at us happily and stopped to pat Chandler’s ears.

He then produced a bag of biscuits from somewhere within his vehicle and instantly became Chandler’s new best friend. We chatted a while even though I found his grandpa-style mumbling a little difficult to understand. He is one of the good communicators who repeats things a few times in different ways rather than the general method of yelling them at me louder and louder until giving up.

We managed to discuss a few things; the fact that he is from Shanghai and thinks it is a much better place to live than Hefei (a spooky coincidence… we have just this week been thinking about moving there), the fact that I have too many freckles and it is very strange, and children.

Our new friend was horrified to hear that Patrick and I have been married four years but are yet to have any children, and promptly announced the fact to everyone passing by.

I think I will start giving our big-Chinese-wedding date when people ask how long we have been married, rather than the real date, then I should have at least another year to go before people start fussing about our being child-less.

Walks in the Park with Chandler are never dull.

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