Followers of this blog will know that I have not written for a long time.

Below is the last blog post I wrote, but never published.   It will go some way to explain why I walked away from writing online about our lives in China.

I’m rather annoyed.  In fact, I’m very annoyed.  No, I’m seething.  I have spent days writing this blog post in between everyday life in Shanghai and trying to grab time when the internet is up and working, to type all that I wanted to say about the books I’d read in 2015.  And then somehow, today, despite the whole post being saved time and time again as I wrote a little bit more, I’ve managed to lose the whole lot. Gone. Just like that.  Wordpress has forced me into using their new version of their blogging software and somehow I’ve just managed to send about 15 hours work into a puff of air.

So when I can bring myself to fight the machinations of the software and Shanghai’s intermittent internet and the Great Fire Wall, I shall recompose what I wanted to say and break it down into several posts so that I can’t lose too much work in one go if crisis hits and you won’t have to read much in one go either.  In the meantime, enjoy the pretty pictures.