I blinked but I couldn’t believe it.  But Ted (a foreign teacher like me) was correct.  Close to our university, attached to the side of the house just outside of a window was a dirty bird cage.  Inside the bird cage was a dog. Read more…

Tina woke me at 6.30am.  I was still weary from the big eleven hour hike we’d done the day before.  Dog tired, if the truth be known. Read more…

As I awoke this morning in my hotel room, something was different.  What was it? Read more…

Tina and I awoke without delay, as is the custom in China.  From early on, often a cacophony of sounds drifts up from the streets, assaulting one's ears, ranging from blaring car horns through to street vendors crying out, plus the often quite loud conversations held by people going about their day to day business. Read more…

Forgive me…….By now many of you must think I am some kind of ‘sexual pervert’ with my ramblings about the various ‘Types’ of women you can find on CLM and all the other ‘sexual connotations’ I have referred to in my somewhat ‘controversial blogs’ Read more…

The last three days were flying way too fast because we were busy shopping. I wanted to buy something for my home, something Chinese.  So, I bought two wooden calligraphies, a small one and a big one. The big one was very expensive, but Lily bargained almost half of the price off. She was good at bargaining. Read more…

A face you should remember but a name you have probably forgotten - Simon Weston (OBE) - A welsh soldier, a hero from the Falklands war back in the 1980's. Simon became a household name because of his bravery when fighting for his country, suffering horrendous injuries in an explosion that resulted in 45% burns and dis-figured him for life. Simon was, and continues to be a huge inspiration to many people who have faced massive hurdles in their lives and shows us that life really does go on, no matter how bad things get. Read more…

Sarcasm…….”The lowest form of wit” as my mother always said. She was of course, totally wrong because sarcasm at its best, is probably the funniest form of humour that we have. The British are exceptionally good at it and have proven it over the years with classic TV programs such as “Fawlty Towers”, “Blackadder” and of course, “Only Fools and Horses” – all totally hilarious shows based on just about 100% sarcasm. Read more…

Welcome to Part 1 - I know you have been dying to read my scribble here, haha - and I have no doubt that there are many Chinese Girls out there polishing their gun ready to shoot me .....?  In my last blog I told you that I was going to describe 5 types of Chinese women over the coming weeks - but there are in fact - 6 types. Read more…