Requiescat in Pace: NiHao Tea House

[dewline]

For the last hour I've been sitting here in this tea house, sipping, web crawling, and writing.

For 3-4 years, my little writing workshop would meet here at this little tea house in Gloucester Centre Mall, to read what we'd written each week for as much or as little critiquing as each of us could stand to hear. Novels were worked out here, articles for weblogs, short stories, poems...everything but scripts for actors, I think, and we might've tried to hash one of those out too.

Today is the last day of the life of the NiHao Tea House.

I thought I'd drop in for one last visit, one last taste of their Jasmine Green Tea, before the screen door was pulled shut for the last time.

If you happen to visit the Gloucester Centre before 9 PM tonight in your travels through Ottawa, please spare them a thought and a few minutes of your time.

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

If you're referring to bunsen_h, he's been mentioning trouble with one foot/leg off and on for a while now. Some sort of accident, and I'm going to have to dig through his past postings to refresh my memory on the details. It's only in the last few weeks that he was finally able to nail down a surgery date for solving the trouble. fajrdrako mentioned that she'd visited him at hospital a day or two ago.

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

Oy!

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

The problem that bunsen_h had was actually traced to a cyst of some sort in his lower back (right beside the spinal cord) that was causing pain all the way down his legs. It's taken over a year to trace the cause; he had 3 hours (!) of surgery on Wed. last week to drain it and make sure it stays drained. [There was a sizeable risk to the adjacent spinal cord too.] AFAIK, he should be out of hospital by now.

I visited him last Sunday and he was in good spirits, but still feeling weak and unco-ordinated.

Crossing fingers that this issue is fixed permanently ...

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

Oooops -- it was actually on Saturday that I visited him.

My badly organized memory. :-)