Taking a Break (and a little pruning) – London Bound

I’m off to London for a couple of weeks so I’m going to be strolling galleries, eating excellent food, sipping fine wines and guzzling good ales around the British Isles for a bit…and doing a bit of work unfortunately. Naturally no time to post much of anything so I’ll take a break – but fear not, back soon with both lots of old pictures, maps and China ephemera that’s sitting in the UK waiting to be collected and also, finally, all the details of my new book, Midnight in Peking, the launch and where I’ll be turning up to sell you a copy in the second half of the year.

I’ll leave you with a picture reflecting a time worn rite of passage in Shanghai for this time of year, the pruning of the London planes (these over by East China Normal University), cutting back the foliage to allow for another year’s growth.