Spring has sprung, although the weather remains somewhat crappy and gray out. Today was one of those days when you could wear a coat, but maybe didn’t need one? But you’d have been a little cold if you didn’t bother.

Winter seems to be almost six months long in Shanghai. Summer just as long. A land of extremes, with a few weeks that seem like Spring and Autumn wedged in.

It has been a long time since I posted some Shots Around Shanghai. This is almost entirely due to me being a fairly boring person and not going to anywhere new! Some of these photos go back a long way, until almost Chinese New Year in February. Time to catch up.

Rhonda Rousey Flow?

Local Fancy market area

Inside our bedroom

Laoximen Station

Fireworks were banned in shanghai for CNY for the first time.

Xinhua News Agency Downtown Shanghai

Finally got a picture of one of the Chair Guys!

Our local street

I think that this says, ‘Have country, always have home’ but my Chinese is not very good

Spring!

‘Poo Tree’

Dirty Cat, one of our neighbourhood’s pets

Old and new, migrants and millionaires

My Biography at School. My surname is ‘Biography!’ hahahahaha