Dinner time

Dinner with friends on Monday night.

YY, Emma, Peng and me...

Peng and I had ingested a "pi jiu" or two by this stage... but it was a good night with lots of very interesting conversation.

Limited access....

Here in China again... this time for a longish stint.

Access to the blog is a little limited, but hopefully should be able to get some shots up every so often.

For the first week, while there were some other westerners around, we took to sitting in the foyer of the hotel and having a quiet beer and a talk....

But because we are so different we attract some attention... These kids were teaching me words for different parts of the body... and the word for nose gave a great excuse to touch a nose bigger than they had ever seen before!!!

Too many Japanese cartoons

Xan has been watching too many Japanese cartoons...
this is how he has started to look.....

He is an oversized pair of boots away from being part of an elite robot controlling fighting squad destined to save the world in a quasi spiritual battle!

Down side of an older car...

So, there are all these things you take for granted when you have them....
and when you make a decision to go back to an older model, they are no longer there....

In this case, in every car I have owned for the last 2 decades I have had a little thing that tells me "distance to empty".  I no longer have that - and it turns out that I use that a lot...

My car decided to stop working on the highway on the way home.
I pulled off to the side, called Ruth, who soon arrived, (laughing the whole way) with a fuel can.

Luckily I had a camera to record the whole experience...