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
Chinese New Year Report
Halfway Through Renovations (ish) All is still this morning in our patch of the Wuyuan … Read More
Beam Me Up, Shifu
The Old Enemy In a wooden framed house, termites and leaking water have long been … Read More
In the hands of the master
For any building project, the builders are obviously the meat and gravy to the project. As … Read More
‘In the eyes of the news’
The lovely people at Jiangsu TV caught whiff of the stink we were creating down … Read More