Epiphany Church jumble sale is back!

This is the sale I've been waiting all year for. And I wasn't the only one. I passed the church at 9.30am and there were already people milling outside.

It was so packed at 11am that I had to elbow my way in. Why is it so popular? Clothes are HK$10 for four, the better quality pieces are HK$20 each and suits/coats are HK$100. You can emerge with huge bin bags full of stuff and still have spent less than HK$100.

Homeware was less than HK$20.

 And books and CDs started from HK$2 each.

 Is it any wonder I went in there four times today and am planning just as many trips tomorrow?

Get your books at Bizzie Lizzie!

Bizzie Lizzie is hosting a book signing for Liina Klauss and Tania Willis this Saturday (March 24). She's promised activities for the kids, balloons, a lucky draw and some of her yummy popcorn so do turn up to support – and buy loads of books!

For every one of Liina's colouring books sold at the signing, one will be sent to a child at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Province in Japan.

And of course we should support our fellow Mui Wo-er (or is that Mui Wo-ian?) Tania, who does really lovely illustrations.

Gosh, free books

Next time you're in Tung Chung for shopping, be sure to check out the shelf of books at Pacific Coffee.

Buffalo Wilbur and I are such bookworms and we spend a fortune on our books so it was wonderful to find this shelf of free books.

Part of the self-explanatory Read More movement, the principle is simple: Take a book you want off the shelf, read it then return it when you're done to any Read More shelves.

You'd think that people would be grabbing the books and leaving nothing but, say, 101 Ways to Regrout Your Bathroom on the shelf but some of them are new novels and travel books.

Worth checking out, I think.

Mui Wo guide book

We've been curious to read up more on Mui Wo ever since we moved here but there hasn't been much information about the place in English. So we've been reduced to reading the heritage boards scattered around the villages for to glean more about Mui Wo.

A few days ago, Buffalo Wilbur found an Island Series book on Mui Wo for HK$60 at The Bookshop and we've been happily devouring the little factoids in the tri-lingual (English, Chinese, Japanese) book.

Produced by the same people who publish hiking maps on nature trails and guides, it is a fount of information and photos. I like the historical tidbits and village-by-village guide of the Tung Chung-Mui Wo and Discovery Bay-Mui Wo trails.

Don't expect scintillating writing - there are some bloopers (Jesus was "resuscitated", not resurrected, according to the authors) and the English is clunky in places. But it does fulfill a need, by satisfying our curiosity on some Mui Wo curiosities.

You better hurry if you want to lay your hands on one in Mui Wo. Terry at The Bookshop only has a few left - they sell out almost as soon as he brings them in.