Chinese New Year is a time of noise, colour and strong alcohol. I remember ‘newbies’ … Read More
HOW TO GARDEN IN CHINA
Writing this, I realise I truly am not young any more. I now reserve the … Read More
The Skywells Cocktail List
The English have been noted for not being alien to a drink every now and … Read More
Construction montage
A montage video of how we renovated the house
Mapping the Wilderness
I am English. I have a deep-rooted respect for the archaic pleasures of rolling fields, … Read More
Our Wedding in a Chinese city
Having nervously proposed on a beach in Devon, England at the end of 2016 – … Read More
When it rains, it pours
Southern China every year takes a deep breath, tightens its rain coat and steps into … Read More
Our Wedding
To help speed up the construction process, we gave the team here a ‘hard’ deadline: … Read More
Some Welcome Precision
One of the first decisions we made in restoring this ancient mansion, was that we … Read More