D (not that one) is actually married now so it’s safe to post this, our recipe for a stag do:

Ingredients

1. One stag, preferably reticent
2. Half a dozen mates
3. A Frenchman (preferably drunk)
4. Bus tickets to city you’ve not been to before (we chose Nanjing)
5. Primary costume (angel wings, wand, veil, scarf, etc)
6. Secondary costume (worse than the first, you’ll need this when your stag off-loads his first costume on to the bar lady, we had surf babe granny pants and a rather cheap negligee)
7. One camera, fully charged
8. Diddy boppers and sunglasses (you’ll need these much later on)
9. A deck of challenge cards (write these yourself, you can taylor them to the stag)
10. A placard that reads “it’s my stag do, give me a snog” (in English and Chinese)
11. The names and addresses of some bars / restaurants in your destination city (if your going to Nanjing then I recommend the completely mental Yes club, 1912 obviously and BlueSky for breakfast)
12. A good breakfast.

Method

See our pictorial guide, here.

Gosh, how exciting. Those nice people over at hangzhou-hhh.org have announced the first ever hash to be organised by the Hangzhou Hash House Harriers. It’s on the 2nd of June and will start from Maya bar (what a surprise).

Details here: http://www.hangzhou-hhh.org/.

If the above doesn’t make any sense what so ever, then you should probably read this Hash House Harriers.

As a loony-liberal-brit I was never dead impressed at the fact that every time I move house in China I have to go to the local police station and register. Still it’s not my country and if it serves some useful purpose, or a nefarious one (I don’t really care) then so be it.

However the apparently new regulation, described here by Ambling Sheep, that I have to register every time I come back in to the country seems to be madness.

Surely the police and the immigration people could share their data in some sinister uber database and save me the hassle of traipsing down to the police station every couple of months.