the view from fanling


idiosyncratic observations on life,

the world and everything in between

Wednesday, 30 April 2025

inspiring

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The weather forecast wasn’t inspiring yesterday. The chance of rain, according to the Hong Kong Observatory website, was ‘medium’, which pre...
Sunday, 13 April 2025

neighbourhood graffiti

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Although I’ve seen quite a lot of graffiti in Fanling, until yesterday I’d never seen any examples in my immediate neighbourhood, which I wo...
Sunday, 6 April 2025

across the border

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Paula recently discovered that, as Hong Kong residents, we could apply for a card that would give us unlimited access to mainland China with...
Sunday, 2 February 2025

egrets in our local river

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Yesterday afternoon, Paula and I went for a walk down the Ng Tung River, which I usually refer to casually as ‘our local river’. This isn’t ...
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Dennis Hodgson
I'm an ex-geologist, an ex-Outward Bound instructor and administrator, an ex-journalist, and an ex-book editor. I still consider myself a scientist. I'm now retired and spend seven months of each year in Fanling, a town in Hong Kong's New Territories, and five months in Penrith, my home town in England.
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