the view from fanling

When I was growing up, the pavements in Penrith’s main streets were constructed using thin rectangular slabs of the local stone—Penrith sand...

Over the Easter weekend, it has been necessary for me to attend the Jockey Club clinic in Sheung Shui (‘ above (the) water ’) for treatment...

I grew up playing board games, starting with dice-based games such as ludo and snakes and ladders, and later, Monopoly. However, once I’d di...

If you’ve been watching BBC News, then you will know that the year of the monkey came to an end at midnight on Friday, to be superseded by t...

When I was a pupil at my local grammar school between 1957 and 1964, I did my best to dodge playing rugby, for reasons that I described in A...

In Memory Games , posted earlier this month, I suggested a way to alleviate the tedium of commuting to work in trains so crowded that it is ...

I’m fortunate that I’ve only ever had to commute to work for two short periods: from Highbury in north London, where I lived at the time, be...