Monthly Archives: November 2017

A Lesson in Perseverance

I was at Wuzhou Lu metro station to meet someone and I was a bit early. From the metro station, you can look over an old community downstairs and although it was in a state of disrepair and dereliction, there was still some life there. I walked around the deserted lanes with half tumbled down… Read More »

Land Grab on the landing

It’s dark enough on the landing and in the stairwell but when I returned home this week, it was like a cave because the man from the next house (not mine) bought this tiny 12sqm flat (cupboard) for his son  years ago and is now doing it up in preparation for him returning to Shanghai.… Read More »