Having nervously proposed on a beach in Devon, England at the end of 2016 – […]
When it rains, it pours
Southern China every year takes a deep breath, tightens its rain coat and steps into […]
Our Wedding
To help speed up the construction process, we gave the team here a ‘hard’ deadline: […]
Some Welcome Precision
One of the first decisions we made in restoring this ancient mansion, was that we […]
Chinese New Year Report
Halfway Through Renovations (ish) All is still this morning in our patch of the Wuyuan […]
Beam Me Up, Shifu
The Old Enemy In a wooden framed house, termites and leaking water have long been […]
In the hands of the master
For any building project, the builders are obviously the meat and gravy to the project. As […]
Got Wood?
From rose gardened manors to a student tip, every house has a distinctive smell. Ours […]
‘In the eyes of the news’
The lovely people at Jiangsu TV caught whiff of the stink we were creating down […]