Air shipment has arrived at last. A bit like Christmas, if you’d asked Father Christmas for a random selection of clothes, mugs, wires and other items you forgot to include in your sea shipment. Still, delighted to have it arrive – feels a little bit more like home now. It’s funny how quickly the everyday … Continue reading
21 degrees at 8am sounds like an ideal way to start the working day. Add in 85% humidity though and you have a somewhat sticky journey to work. And it’s only April; July and August are going to be entertaining months… So a weekend of exploring in the mid-spring heat took us to a few … Continue reading
Four people enter the house – 2 men with large gas canisters, 1 man with assorted tools and 1 lady with a mop. They disappear upstairs to where we’d highlighted a damp wall to the landlord following a bout of prolonged rain. I settle back downstairs and wait to hear all has been resolved. … Continue reading
So I was right – it turns out the small creatures are American cockroaches, not Chinese. The pest control officers visited on Friday and Saturday in an attempt to eliminate the little blighters. Apparently it could take up to a week… In other domestic news we now have an air purifier for the bedroom and … Continue reading
Shanghai probably doesn’t get compared to Birmingham, Alabama very often. But it’s the only other place in which I’ve lived (albeit briefly in the case of that fine Southern US state) where the locals’ walking top speed – from a scale of “stopped” to “running” – barely registers “saunter”. Shanghai is an incredibly hectic city … Continue reading
Having been warned about the medicals (lots of rooms, lots of people poking and prodding), it appears we got off somewhat likely with just a blood test and nowt else. So we felt a little guilty rushing in and straight out amongst all the bewildered westerners (wearing elegant “medical robes”) as they shuffled from Doctor … Continue reading
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