Friday 13 March 2015: I’m teaching again. I guess that the retirement was always going to be a contested zone but I didn’t expect it to puncture in quite this way. Here’s what happened. Just before Christmas, I received an email from a young Chinese teacher of English whom I had met during a visit…

It’s late February and my wife and I are on a cruise to the Eastern end of Papua New Guinea. It’s a very welcome break and although the cruise itinerary is not glamorous, there are whole days at sea in which I have time to write and think about the next story that has been…