General updates from the orient

I’m feeling decidedly under the weather today – I seem to have come down with a dose of the ‘flu again. I seem to be quite susceptible to flu these days, and I spent most of last night either very hot or very cold. I’m at work now, and I seem to be feeling a bit better, although there is still a leprechaun with a flamethrower sitting on my head giving me cold-sweats. I had a banana for breakfast, which seems to have worked. What I’d really like, though, is a nice English fried breakfast…..bacon, eggs, sausage, beans, fried toast…..

I’m reading Darryn’s blog at the moment, which is making me crave a lot of the yummy food we used to eat in China, like xiao long bao.

We’re still absolutely obsessed with watching Silent Witness, which I had never given a chance in the UK but is actually really very good. We can catch that on BBC Entertainment, and it is usually followed by the Cathy Tait show, something else I’d never seen before coming here, but has had us crying with laughter.

I received confirmation in the post yesterday of my Viva pass, along with the official comments, which was good. I’d waited a few weeks for it, and when the envelope arrived it looked as though someone had been dragging it through mud. It arrived in a plastic bag apologising – which was nice. The long and short of it is that I have 3 month to make some reasonably minor corrections, including chapter structure and the inclusion of some tables. All being well, we I should be able to get that done fairly soon, and send it off to the UK. It seems to have take a long time (actually, it has – 5 years almost, including employment gaps), but it is only now that it is starting to sink in that it is almost over.