Its a rainy Saturday here in Shanghai, so no excuses not to do some design work (when there’s sun it’s much easier to be distracted)….

Living in shanghai isn’t all people in pyjamas, dogs in clothes and motorbike Jenga as my recent blog posts allude to. There is also culture…

Last weekend was a public holiday in china, so to optimise my holiday time I had a brief trip to a humid Hong Kong. Getting…

Falling asleep at your desk in the UK is actually a sackable offence. In china no one blinks an eye while staff take 30 winks….

Katie Melua may have sung about nine million bicycles in Beijing but even with Shanghai’s ever increasing car population we still have over five million…

No this isn’t a cheap trick to get more views on my website. Having a well coiffured pooch is serious business here in Shanghai. Especially…

One of my first observations when I arrived in China was, the Chinese do love a uniform. Whichever way you turn, there is always someone…

All my life I’ve needed glasses; pre-1984 I would frequently walk into table tops, lamp posts, door frames; you get the idea! Then I got…

China’s “Designer Brands” In the consumerist world of modern China, designer brands are a must have.  As you wander down Nanjing lu, you are greeted…

We met Chinese Delboy at the market in Yu Gardens, in Shanghai.