FILTH 2: Return to the (former) colonies
So 2 weeks ago, there I was, comfortably ensconced in the BA First Class lounge, little drinkie-poos in one hand, when the phone goes. Damn, it’s the boss was my initial reaction but then remembering that for some lamentable reason it was only my first come back sharpener I took the call.
Fifteen minutes later, it transpires that immediately after my next little West Coast junket which is next week, I have to get myself on a flight going the other way & head for Harry Honkers.
Five months unaccompanied. Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Wanchai … fi de la, ummmmgoy sai
Well, that’s not completely true, Family FM will be doing a couple of trips out during that time if for no other reason than the nippers, having grown up in the darkest West Country, should find that HK will completely & utterly put the zap on their little heads. There are few things more satisfying than comprehensively trashing your children’s comfort zone! Larkin was right all along.
Still, having left in ’97 & only done two shortish trips back their since, I am quite looking forward to it, even though weather wise it will be the worst time of year. Add to that, the fact that I will have to spend a fair amount of time up country, the beer in the many bars along the Fong will be ice cold & there are deals to be done: it should make for an interesting summer.
Bestest of all however is the fact that last weekend I actually mowed the lawns at home – a job I so completely & utterly detest. By the time I get back home, the grass should just about have stopped growing. You really can't say fairer than only having to have to cut the grass once this year!
Comments
Will you still be able to blog and is there any shooting worth reporting on in HK these days?
Posted by: TimC | May 2, 2008 9:32 AM
Damn...you just reminded me I need to go and mow the lawn.
Posted by: thud | May 2, 2008 10:53 AM
Somehow, I had you pegged as being more the type for Bottom's Up, across the water in Kowloon, then a Wanchai crawler.
Posted by: Will Brown | May 2, 2008 7:40 PM
West Coast Junket? now of that would put you in the neighborhood of San Diego, now would it?
Posted by: LCpl Dan | May 4, 2008 1:17 AM