Well SM, even if you speak okay chinese you can still feel like a spare prick at a wedding. The trick is to not mind being ignored a bit.

Well, that is true. Glad to see you are enjoying your return trip. Is it a bit parky up there, the mercury has just dropped a bit in HK again, do you have a heater in your bedroom in your dotage? I hope you do. do keep posting your pics, a fascinating insight into life within a chinese family, I do wish more pics would be posted on here, of not just China, but whereever one finds themselves teaching english.