That wag Tim Footman has managed to prick my conscience into getting me to write a second blog post in a month – my pathetic rejoinder to all the ‘blogs are dead’ noise on Twitter.
As my life at the moment consists almost entirely of exam revision, lesson writing and cat grooming, I have to plunder [...]
One of the many jobs I did when I lived in China was working at a recording studio attached to the country’s biggest audio-visual publishing house as ‘token British female’.
Over the four years I lived there I must have recorded hundreds of hours of English language learning materials. These were used across China as part [...]
Pudong skyline: fifteen years ago this was all agricultural land.
The view from my hotel. At night I’d occasionally see a light on in the tower crane driver’s box to the right of the picture. Did he sleep up there?
Shanghainese shoes on the 93rd floor: spot the Chanel.
Down at street level things can be a little [...]