Pigging Out

One of the problems of living in Hong Kong, though not everybody would see it as such, is that barely four weeks…

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It’s All Greek to Me!

Okay, maybe not Greek but the subject of Chinese had me spouting similarly when I first landed in Asia many years ago,…

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A Bad Case Of Wind

No, I’m not talking about the unsociable aftermath of last night’s aloo gobi; I refer to an atmospheric disturbance, believe it or…

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I Saw You Coming

The most expensive place to live screams yet another annual report on expat living. Really? I’m not sure. In fact I sometimes…

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Here Be Dragons!

In Hong Kong we know summer’s arrived when clothing sticks and dragons emerge, not real ones obviously but those wooden versions intended…

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Stretching Oneself

As a spotty-faced, teenage oik, I’d no idea engineering would take me halfway round the world. So in marking the 200th anniversary…

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All Change At Hong Kong

With jumbo-sized poignancy an amusing thought struck me recently; and it was all to do with the very spot on which I…

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Wake Up!

No, not you! But if that is your alarm clock I can hear ringing even from here then perhaps you ought, you’ll…

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Who Gives A Fu?

Well, that’s easy: in fact everyone does and especially at this time of year. You’ll notice them all over the place. Of…

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An Offer I Couldn’t Refuse

‘Would you like to work for us in Hong Kong?’ Well? Would you? Will you? It was a question put to me…

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