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| Reading these gardening books |
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| Reading this unusual horror book. Not my usual genre. |
Ahmed Saadawi is an Iraqi novelist, poet, screenwriter and documentary film maker. He won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for Frankenstein in Baghdad. He lives and works in Baghdad. The novel is set in the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq. If you wish to read more about the book you may do so here.
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| Vietnamese Pho Noodle soup with basil & beans sprouts + a roll dip & tea |
After a good run of many sunny days we are now having a few cloudy, cool days.
It is supposed to rain. I hope we get a good soak for the garden.
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| This is the high rise going up. You can see the clouds gathering. Change is in the air |
The high rise under construction is part of a large development. The rest of the building is behind the high rise. Altogether the development takes up a good half a city block. I'm not sure when the development is scheduled to open but all the condos were sold out years before construction began.
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| Small hotel immediately across from the high rise development. |
The blue sky is peeking out from behind the clouds.
The hotel and high rise are located next to shopping, restaurants, pharmacies, coffee shops and so on.
The people living there will enjoy the neighbourhood and they will have spectacular views of the city especially at higher levels.
The high rise proposal came with a lot of back lash and push back from local residents but it will soon become a reality. Since the approval of this particular high rise, similar development has now been approved in one or two other areas where this simply would not have been possible before. That is no doubt why people fought so hard against it but in today's world in Vancouver, there is no where to build but up.
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