Knobcottage in China

Work is enjoyable, but as the Summer heat draws in, things are starting to get difficult.  Often teh tempoerature is over thirty degrees centigrade but it is the humidity that is tking its toll.  Ninety-seven percent humidity.  Fine if you have grown up with it, and most of teh school kids have, but for me I am constanly wet.  I walk into school just fifteen minutes, my cliothes are wet.  I change into my teaching clothes, teach, my clothes are wet.  Back to the office and change into my other clothes etc. etc.  I thin it had taken its toll.  Upset stomach.  So I put on my dry clothes and walked into town looking for medicine for my stomach and also to stop teh mosquitos biting.  Eleven bites on my legs yesterday, my legs were on fire.  I managed to get the stomach medicine, or at least that's what I hoped it was after I mimed diahorrea to he pharmacist.  Then my phone rang.  It was my boss.  "Where are you Mike, the...

Well as you've probably gatehred by now, China is different to England, and as for Health and Safety, well in China it just does not seem to exist...or a least not to the same extent as in England.  Here follow a few "What could possibly go wrong?" examples. slightly blurred but four 56lb bags of produce on one tiny scooter.  I thought it was goping to get wheeled home, bu no, she sat astride the top sack and drove off dond the road!  I wasnt quick enough to get pictures of her departure! Brakes not working? Well stick a couple of stoned under the wheels. Umbrella on a motorbike plus five bottles of butane.  Safe as houses!  A three wheeleer with a load twice as high as the truck.  Piece of string will fix that.  A huge crane loaded onto the back of a lorry, maybe several 'tens of tons' Hand tied with some freyed rope and where the rop passes over a sharp edge, a carefully squashed 'pop bottle' to prevent the metal cutting ...