h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I was teaching at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where I had been for 3 years. I loved it and despite what follows I think it is still my favourite post.
Some of my favourite students came to see me before taking the train to Beijing. I had tickets booked on the same train a month later as the first leg of my journey home on the trans-Siberian.
About a fortnight later my pensioner neighbours made a huge effort to contact me through the British consulate so that my thirteen year old could be assured that I was still alive - my students by that time were not. When I eventually got home, they wouldn't let me pay the phone bill.
If I ever get round to writing the memoirs, there's a whole chapter, but for the time being I just take the time every year to remember Tiananmen Square (who never managed to get on the trans-Siberian)

I'd read your memoires

GB

So many thoughts tumble into my head at once. A lurch in the pit of my stomach at the horror of what happened there. Just how different that world is. The transience of life. And, of course: where do I put in an advance order for these memoires?

have you started the memoires? I've been after them for ages

bit more family tree searching to do first. I have found a George Regalia Jones that I would like a bit mote information on. Must take advantage of free service while the local library is still open.
After that, the autobiography should keep me alive for a few years.

WS, you are absolutely NOT allowed to die until you've written your memoirs, had them published, and held a book signing event.
Is that clear ?

Actually, scratch that. You are not allowed to die, full stop.




Waiting for a good read.

And somewhere, maybe, there is still a prisoner from the protests
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-27659475

so happy that I have supporters on my long long campaign to get WS to write her autobiography

and to

(maybe that should be ?)

Dear Phil
Thank you. I would have missed that. But I wish I hadn't read it. Couldn't see for tears at the end.
How very, very brave to refuse to work. When I think what I've done in the past 25 years!
The rest of you can select my 8th Desert Island Disc. I've got one each for my first seven decades

Easy! You want one from this decade? Gangnam Style!!