Knobcottage in China

Having got home after the meeting and meal, I decided to do a bit of blogging.  It is becoming increasingly random as to whether, even with a VPN, I can upload videos and pictures to Blogger.  As such the most simple tasks are taking forever.  Anyhow, after an hour I started to fall asleep!  So I went for my afternoon nap.  This is a very Chinese thing, but I reckon it's becoming an old age thing for me too, however it's not just old age, even my colleague Sherika who is only twenty-six years old, is constantly complaining about how tired she is! After my nap I got up and did a bit more blogging but started to get increasingly fed up of failed upload and slow uploads.  Decision time:  stay in ans watch telly or go out?  Well,I could stay in bed late tomorrow, so it ws time to go out and see what was there.  It was raining very lightly as I left the house and past the undertakers shop.  They spotted me and invited me in.  I told th...

I had been working hard and decided ti was time to play, so I went ot the park.  I was sitting on teh wall chatting with a teacher in both mandarin and chinglish wehn a message came on my phone from Susan.  Susan is one of my newer friends, her husband is the Police Surgeon. She asked me if I was in the park.  I told her I was.  She said come and find me, and sent a video.  I worked out where seh was and we eventually met up.  We taked a while and went for a walk still talking.  We stopped on the bridge and chatted about school. Me and Susan first attempt at the selfie e and Susan second attempt at the selfie After a brief chat she said she was going walking and her freinds would soone meet her.  We walked out of town.  She kept picking things up and asking what they were and telling me the Chinese name for them.  I kept forgetting, she kept reminding!  Evetnually we turned around, headed back into town adn met her fre...