I wanted to show Sue the Potato Bistro out at Xianlin and after we’d dined she wanted to buy some bread at one of only two bread shops in the city. We also decided that when we got there we’d have a coffee and a cake for dessert. So we walked the short distance there and came across Liam sitting outside The Blue Marlin having a beer.
Liam gives advice to the bar on marketing and gets loads of money in credits each month at that place and the Indian restaurant. So he bought us a drink and we sat chatting to him and an Aussie guy called John. After an hour or so Eleanor, Liam’s wife came, to chivvy him along and try to get him home.
We didn’t get home until after 6pm and Sue certainly was rather the worse for wear.
That evening I responded to an advert for someone to give a talk to a load of police cadets. The British man that answered the phone seemed keen and so we struck a deal.
He phoned back after about 30 minutes just to check. “Sorry, I didn’t ask” he sounded a bit embarrassed “you are Caucasian aren’t you?”. “Yes” I replied and he sounded very relieved.
That was close, he might have been put in the embarrassing position of putting someone with dark skin in front of a group of policeman!