I decided that, after having so many positive comments about my portraits I have decided to make a poster which is a montage of portraits of people in Nanjing. I have trawled through 2 years of pics and found enough to make a poster 1 metre square. I will get one made next week when… Read More »
I decided to spend New Year’s Day up on the Purple mountain walking around the Purple Cloud Lake. I took all my cold weather gear; 2 scarves, 2 prs gloves (1 silk, 1 thin wool), 1 pr Gortex ski mitts, 2 hats, thermal long johns, full length cashmere coat. There were very few people on… Read More »
The fireworks started as soon as the sun went down and by the time it got to midnight I was already fed up of the constant din and had the volume right up watching a DVD trying to drown out the sound. When midnight came the whole place erupted and it felt more akin to… Read More »
After marking 60 scripts I was on my way out of the office and I saw one of my colleagues eating a very nice panini. Hungry, I asked her where she got it. She drew a little map and I found the Warehouse Cafe hidden through a guarded gate at the bottom of a building… Read More »
I wondered why there were so many armed police around the place last week. Nanjing South Railway station had them posted at the front entrance. Then, in Hefei I saw the China Daily running a story about a robbery in Nanjing. The news report goes as follows.The suspect allegedly shot and killed a man who… Read More »
Spent a nice day going to Lynn and her 13 yr old twins, Laura and Jack and my Indonesian friend, Era. Firstly we had coffee in Costa and then up to Bububu fabric market for Jack to have a fitting of his suit for his junior United Nations thing in Beijing. Then lunch at a… Read More »
The Shanghai police called me and asked whether I would mind going down to the police station the following morning to have my photograph taken. I was a little suspicious but not overly worried as I was sure that I had not done anything which might upset them (except hang out with a convicted criminal… Read More »