Wednesday 18th Feb – still Chinese New Year and I’m still in Fenghua Breakfast was not reheated pork and cold prawns but sweet noodles. As I slurped my way through that small soup bowl of sugary sweet noodles, I couldn’t help but think that this was intrinsically wrong. Sweet…noodles…perhaps the prawns would have been a betterContinue reading “Racing cars and making dumplings”
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Prawns & personality dissection before 8am
Wednesday 18th Feb When one has plenty of time to consider how they got themselves into a specific situation, such contemplation ultimately culminates in some sort of new conclusion regarding ones personality – for me it does, anyway. This morning, as I shivered, slightly dehydrated anxiously awaiting the household to stir, I decided that I take thingsContinue reading “Prawns & personality dissection before 8am”
Around the dinner table
Still Tuesday 17th February – Fenghua I am compelled to admit it, by the time the train arrived at the destination station I was really quite scared. Weirdly, and fitting for the frightened traveler, the station closed up as soon as we had all disembarked this, the last train. Everyone scuttled off in family cars;Continue reading “Around the dinner table”
At the train station
Tuesday 17th Feb Three cereal bars and a bag of celery is all I had time to grab as I left for the station – I’d ration it! All will be fine. On the way: mist and pollution. It occurred to me that the mist is a bit like a white sandstorm but creepier. WithContinue reading “At the train station”
Being decisive
Sunday 15th and Monday 16th Feb – Chinese New Year holidays To my dears at home, It occurred to me that I have not told you of some of the basic, ‘normal’ stuff that might help you picture my day-to-day life here. Perhaps such information will enable you to rationalise even visualise me in this world soContinue reading “Being decisive”
Guffaws, grunting and gut wrenching fear
14th February I lay, eyes closed, palms open and to the side of my body, ankles relaxed allowing the toe end of my feet to fall gently towards the floor. I enjoyed feeling my heart rate slow and my shoulders gradually sink into the yoga mat. ‘Aaaand breathe in through the nose; a long, deep breath;Continue reading “Guffaws, grunting and gut wrenching fear”
Causing Trouble
9th Feb – Causing Trouble It would seem that I am in trouble. I have escaped serious injury after being vaulted from my bicycle at high speeds. I have survived pollution that appeared mutant-cloud like, creeping through the towers on my compound one lazy Sunday afternoon; I have resisted the urge to give up andContinue reading “Causing Trouble”
So much to do!
7th Feb – Saturday So here I am: at work on a Saturday. Not, however, because I have a policy to write, books to mark or a to-do list to scale. No, I am here because I slept here last night after ‘post busy week’ drinks so I didn’t have to try explaining where I liveContinue reading “So much to do!”
Fruit Gums and Eyebrows
30th Jan – Fruit Gums and Eyebrows So Facebook suggest that a status should be a statement about what’s on your mind, yes? Well, on my mind is Fruit Gums – I want some. And I want my blue shoes; my Yoga bible; I’d like the jumpers I had to leave behind and some peroxideContinue reading “Fruit Gums and Eyebrows”
Wobbles
27th Jan – Wobbles & Scrapes Had a bit of a wobble this week – actually a wobble, skid and smash as I fell off my bike! There are war wounds, a particularly disgusting scabby knee and a couple of gauges to the hands have allowed me to call myself a brave soldier on severalContinue reading “Wobbles”
She went to Shanghai 