Tuesday 26^th June, 2018 1130

No, I'm not going to moan (too much, anyway) this time. It's been a week since The Great Leap Downwards and progress is steady but deadly slow. Walking is still very difficult and I have come to dread the mornings – the smokers' cough is particularly excruciating and I really need one of those geriatric chair things that get you upright so as to almost be standing!

I am going short distances at present (very slowly) and have just been on a hundred yard dash to get my final electricity top up before the school winds down for the year. I broke my record, it only took fifteen minutes.......

Alice, Stephanie, Andy and another lad did some shopping for me (I paid for them to take taxis of course). Well, I say shopping but it was more of a wine run really. Eighteen days' supply to be exact – if I can't get it myself by then something will be seriously amiss!

I even cooked last night, a really nice frittata followed by bananas, grapes and that whipped cream I bought a while ago. Annoyingly, Alice had to cry off so there I was with a veritable bucket of cream (and still well over half left today!) and not enough people to eat it. Still, I have a bolognese defrosting and am sure I can have some dessert tonight. If I feel up to it tomorrow I may make a cake and make a cream sandwich, after all, considering what the stuff cost I really think it would be criminal to waste it. I wonder if you can make an Irish coffee with it???

the Firewall Police are still making the World Cup the What Cup? - they are definitely more vigilant when the matches are on. Last night they struck the Uruguay/Russia match with minutes to go. I was going to take an evening nap on Thursday and get up to watch England's final group game which kicks off at 0200 here. Now I'm not sure.

It's a lovely day today, high this afternoon of 29C so allegedly 27C now although I found it to be absolutely perfect when I went for my hobble just now.

Alice in Guangzhou sent me a link

https://v.qq.com/x/page/r0698o9ycp5.html

It is really well done, presumably by students using a drone but it shows the vast scale of the campus in Chizhou. When the drone gets up really high, believe it or not even the buldings in the far distance are part of the university. I still miss the old place.