Snake Warning! Sep 30 - Alarm!! Big Danger!! Beware!!!! Put up a warning sign!

Lamma's Spine Sep 29 - "...various landscapes—coastlines, historical Japanese war tunnels, and hidden beaches."

Open Space Events Sep 28 - "Looking for a unique venue for your next event?"

FREE DRINKS! Sep 27 - "...community welcome day to celebrate the opening of Terracotta Lamma."

Zero Bills for 17% of HK Electric Residential Customers Sep 26 - "...the outlook for further reduction..."

Quirky Characters Galore Sep 25 - ...the guy living in the "worst" Lamma village!

Reconstruction of YSW Pier Gangway Sep 17 - Targeted for completion in 2026, cost $157.4 millions!

Free Mooncakes! Sep 16 - Thank you to the sponsor, HK and China Gas co.!

Black Rainstorm Sep 9 - ...highest-rainfall rainstorm with worst flooding in 100+ years.

Super-Expensive Water? Sep 8 - We've received this astounding water bill a few months ago.

Sep 30:  Snake Warning!

Snake warning sign at Aberdeen Promenade. Somebody saw a half-metre, little snake 5 months ago:

Alarm! Big Danger!! Beware!!! Put up a warning sign!

Some Lammaites saw a snake today: no big deal, take a close-up picture, maybe post it to Lamma Snake Sightings, then carry on normally, all ready for the next snake sighting.

Sep 29:  Lamma's Spine

Drone and Phone writes:

"Starting with lunch at Sok Kwu Wan, the duo traverses various landscapes — coastlines, historical Japanese war tunnels, and hidden beaches—before making their way to Yung Shue Wan by sunset..."

Sep 28:  Open Space Events

Sep 27:  FREE DRINKS!

Meet you there next Monday afternoon, a holiday?

Formerly Blue Goose Tavern. Opening in late October!

Sep 26:  Zero Bills for 17% of HK Electric Residential Customers

(Photo by Martin Chan in SCMP)

Good news from HK Electric:

"A spokesman for HK Electric said that the company's Fuel Clause Charge (FCC) for October will decrease further to 54.8 cents per unit of electricity, representing a 12.2% reduction when compared to 62.4 cents per unit in September...

As a result of the FCC reduction and various subsidies, more than 630,000 zero-monthly bills have been recorded for HK Electric's residential customers in the first eight months of this year, representing about 17% of HK Electric's total residential customer bills...

The spokesman noted that with the stabilisation of international fuel prices, the outlook for further reduction in the FCC in the remainder of the year continues to be positive."

Read the entire Press Release...

Sep 25:  Quirky Characters Galore

Conde Nast Traveller:

"Lamma Island is a natural wonderland, not to mention one of the city's coolest outlying islands. You've got the best of everything: excellent seafood, nature trails, chill cafes, waterfront bars, local markets, and quirky characters galore."

Intrigued by this remark, I've asked ChatGPT to tell me more about these quirky Lamma characters. The first one it listed was me! I felt kind of honored, kind of.

Somebody on FB suggested asking ChatGPT to name and rank all Lamma villages. I did and a lively FB discussion ensued, naturally, especially from the guy living in the "worst" Lamma village!

Sep 17:  Reconstruction of YSW Pier Gangway

Reconstruction of the YSW Public Pier gangway (not the already renovated pier building) has finally started, see attached plan.
Targeted for completion in 2026, cost $157.4 millions!

The piles for the temporary pier gangway are being driven into the seabed these days, starting from close to the pier building:

Sep 16:  Free Mooncakes!

Picking up the pair of free big mooncakes:

Thank you to the sponsor, HK and China Gas co.!

Sep 9:  Black Rainstorm!

Photo collection by our District Councilor, Ting Ting of this highest-rainfall rainstorm with worst flooding in 100+ years.

Pak Kok New Village, just downhill from our home
(HK Standard story).

P.S. Sep 25: Repairs have started, many VVs full of liquid cement have been converging on this landslip above.

Sep 8:  Super-Expensive Water?

We've received this astounding water bill a few months ago. It's usually around $50 for the regular 4-month billing period, so this was quite a shock!

Checking the water pipes - all running on the OUTSIDE of our village house - no leakage detected. Taking a photo of our water meter to show the Water Dept. that the recorded reading on the bill was wrong, then emailing it to them to get the bill corrected, hopefully.

No reply at all for several weeks, no comment or apology for the wrong meter reading, just a revised bill, after probably getting their meter reader to have another look at our meter and correct the former, erroneous reading. Revised bill: $53.10!

After all the recent troubles with no water supply for N. Lamma for an entire day and the resulting toilet flushing in our house not working properly for an entire week afterwards, we're a bit disappointed.

3 water-related problems in just a few weeks from a usually problem-free, dependable, invisible Govt.-run utility, supplying clean, safe-to-drink, extremely cheap, subsidised water for all of HK and especially our little island with just 6,000+ widely dispersed residents.

Living in the middle of a banana forest, up a hill on our little, traffic-free, clean-air, peaceful, fantastic-views, almost crime-free island, we're spoilt with highly reliable services like power, aircon, water, mail, terrestrial TV reception and, best of all, fiber Internet since a few months ago, finally! We're very grateful!