The walls come tumbling down in CHINA

This is what's happening in my locality - Haining, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China.

A Spring Walk around my Community BEFORE I LEAVE...

A spring walk around my community - we won't be here next spring/Easter - moving on after just 1 year....

Living Behind the Wall - COVID CHINA April 2022

We went out for vegetables as our community lockdown was lifted

CHINA Nucleic Acid Testing #4 - PURE CHAOS EDITION

I went for a test on Thursday - it was madness.

Day 3 of Nucleic Acid Testing in Haining Zhejiang Province and I take a ...

Day three and for comedy effect I fall ass over tit.

ZERO TOLERANCE - MASS TESTING - CHINA DAY 2 community testing, Haining/H...

Queuing for mass testing in my community - imagine, Shanghai is testing 25 million people. Thats almost half the population of the UK.

ZERO TOLERANCE CHINA Nucleic acid testing in my community

Locked out of Hangzhou we need to do emergency food shop

Covid in China isn't over... here we go again...

2 Years Later! Hangzhou, China - Covid restrictions 2022 - Road Block!

We just went out to get veggies...road block - covid - CHINA

The Whole University Campus got Nucleic Acid tested today. China

A Taste of China from the back seat of my DiDi

A taste of #China - Sat in the back of taxi with the TV playing... so I filmed it so you don't have to.

Baoshi Pagoda wak:Saturdays walk to Baoshi Pagoda and environs.

Just a walk past the factories down our street in Haining, CHINA.

Out for a walk past the factories, as you do in China.

Chinese Strawberry Fields Forever - PYO just down the road

SWEET HAPPEN - A typical day in China 🇨🇳 - At the Mall 🛍

Just a trip to our local Mall to do a bit of shopping and to ease the crushing boredom of staying in all the time cos of the virus and the weather

CHINA 🇨🇳 - Lucky Everyday

A quick look around at the new apartment community next to ours in Haining, Zhejiang Province, China - this is how Chinese people live

China 🇨🇳 v Taiwan 🇹🇼 You Choose... #shorts

The difference between China 🇨🇳 and Taiwan 🇹🇼 - stay classy!

Life in China 🇨🇳 2021 Part 2 - Snibbets from my Mobile Phone 📲

Life in China - random videos off my phone

Bomb Shelter under my apartment in China 🇨🇳 URBEX

Raining today so I went underground to the bomb shelter/parking lot under our apartment 

A Night and Day doggy walk around a community in CHINA 🇨🇳

Taking the dawg for a walk... in Haining, China 🇨🇳 #china #dogwalking #dogs #dogwalk #vlog #vlogger

Fast Food CHINA 🇨🇳 炒面 chǎomiàn #short - Lunch Time - 10 rmb - 2 minutes

I go Urban INXPLORING in CHINA 🇨🇳

We went Urban INXPLORING in Hangzhou  China 🇨🇳 - (Ok Ok, shopping...)

Attending the local Police Station (PSB) in China - It's gotta be done!

When you enter China you always have to register with the local cops - unless you stay in a hotel open to foreigners

Running 🏃🏻‍♂️ and other stuff in China 🇨🇳 - a Podcast I feature in.

China Apartment Tour - the foreign stuff we buy here locally...Hangzhou.

China 🇨🇳 Urban Exploring a massive derelict shopping "castle" #urbex

Cornish Identity: A Passion to Exist - ebook available now

 My new book on Cornish Identity has just been published.  You can get the ebook Here the paperback and hardback will follow shortly.

Green China 🇨🇳 Recycling ♻️ and electric buses 🚌

The Asian Games is coming to Hangzhou - I better get in shape! 6K along ...

Mr Yang Top 5 IELTS Speaking Tips: 雅思口語得分技巧！再也不怕口語低分啦~Good 🇨🇳 #ielts

Guerrilla gardening 🥦 in Haining, China 🇨🇳

On the road to Shangri-La 🇨🇳 (Official Buffet Version)

Sneaking around a 1.5 million dollar house in CHINA - during the interna...

A New Years stroll along the Qiantang River with Snook Doggy Dog.

FREE FOOD delivered to all citizens in XI'AN CHINA Lockdown 🇨🇳☭

Winnie the Pooh is NOT banned in China - it's just more haters hating.

How Christmas 🤶 🎄🎅 is CELEBRATED in CHINA 🇨🇳 2021

Hangzhou Art Fair - September 25th 2021 - a walk around 🇨🇳 It does what it says on the tin... its an art fair... in China 🇨🇳 #art #china #video #artists #youtubevideos

A walk around West Lake, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, Marco Polo clued it "Heaven on Earth"

Humans and Gods - the Mystery of the Shu Civilisation - 这个展览大家一定要去，《人与神...

A Rainy Day in China 🇨🇳

A Tsingtao beer, 🍺 a wasp and the flight of the bumble bee 🐝 in CHINA🇨🇳...

We went out for a Chinese 🇨🇳 Hotpot - could you? 🔥🔥🔥🌶🌶🌶

THE BEST Sweet and Sour Pork at MY local community restaurant in CHINA 🇨...

This is where we eat on a regular basis

1.25 MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE 🏠 TOUR in JAIXING, CHINA 🇨🇳

The Watcher, the Bore, and Typhoon In Fa. Hangzhou CHINA🇨🇳 #short

Typhoon In Fa 🌬 China 🇨🇳 - "What About Us?" ☔️ 💨 On Chinese Social Media

Lost Chinese Horizons 🌇 - building communities in China 🇨🇳 #china

The most boring video to come out of China 🇨🇳 Part 6 the Finale + a walk...

China 🇨🇳 keeps on dancing 🕺

100 Year Anniversary Celebrations of the Chinese Communist Party in Hang...

Visions of China - videos on my phone - just Living in China #2

A walk around our 4,000,000 RMB Apartment 🌇 in Haining, CHINA 🇨🇳

DJI Osmo Action Explorer Combo unboxing in CHINA 🇨🇳 I bought a new camera 📷....from JD.com for Vlogging in CHINA 🇨🇳

View and review apartments (+monthly rents) 🌇 in Zhejiang Province, Chin...

Random VISIONS OF CHINA from my phone before I delete them all (May/June...

China 🇨🇳 Academy of Art - Graduate Show 2021

Inside the Chinese 🇨🇳 Fuck Box 🍆 I finally made it into a Chinese Fuck Box - so you don't have to!

CHINA 🇨🇳 DEMOLISHED! 🔨 Documenting the destruction of old China 🇨🇳

I had my SECOND COVID 19 Vaccine 💉 shot in CHINA 🇨🇳

The Emperor's New Tea - A walk around Longing Tea Village, Hangzhou, China

A young boxer in Suzhou, China. - SNOW TIGER TITUS - Pretty & Strong

Titus is my friend AJ's son training in Suzhou China - can you show him some love/likes by Liking his video please. #boxer #boxing

Epic Day Out in HANGZHOU, Markets, West Lake and Burgers in COMMUNIST CH...

Visiting a BBQ Street in Haining - Zhejiang Province, CHINA 🇨🇳🍆🍺

Rural Zhejiang Province - China is outside my front door and we are movi...

The most boring video to come out of China Part 5 - 1 Year on! - This is why we want to move

A meeting at the Animation and Cartoon Museum Hangzhou, China 🇨🇳

I had the Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine in China

Communist swingers in China. 🇨🇳

When American Culture INVADES China - Part 2

Eating a brownie in an arty mall and a vintage market Part 1

Introducing a Chinese F*CK Box.

Chinese Communism is Working - let's take a look

My vaccination is ready - Saturday Morning Coffee in China.

Walking around the borderlands of Hangzhou (Xiasha) and Haining.

Romance is dead in CHINA

Fat Chinese Refrigerator RAP Hangzhou Version ft Uncle Foreigner

You Are Here : excepts from a short walk along the mighty Qiantang River

A walk along the Grand Canal, Hangzhou and an encounter with an artist ...

To the explorers of the linguistic universe.

Keep your hosts of daffodils

Your weepy, whiney, verse

Don’t try to tell me

My writing is too terse

 

Don't question my choice of words

If they don't match your mood

Check your privilege at the gate

As there’s nothing I’d preclude

 

A healthy dose of realism

Will come knocking at your door

Don’t hide behind the curtains

Because its too hard to ignore

 

Living a poetic fantasy 

Of whimsy, fawn, and fae

Does not really cut it

In the hard, cold, light of day

 

The world tis a hard hard place

Life’s no shining bowl of cherries

When all we have are words and rhymes

To challenge such adversaries 

 

So no howling at the darken places

No barking at the moon

Just pen and ink and attitude

And paper to festoon

 

So take heed my friends and foe alike

And read my silken verse

For poets are naught but explorers

Of the linguistic universe.

The Qiantang River, 1000 year old poetry and votive offerings to the riv...

Of Cats, Panic Buying and Head Hoovering - Happy Chinese New Year!

TERMINATOR EVOLUTION - IT STARTS RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW - CHINA

Street art - China.

Something fishy at the VETS in CHINA!

The MOST BORING video to come out of CHINA - PART 4- you have been warne...

January 22nd 2021 --- One year later... here we go again in China.

Stepping outta 2020 in China stepping inta 2021

Christmas & Contradictions in Hangzhou, China

Visions of China 2020 - Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province - November/December

One Run is a quest to unite people from EVERY COUNTRY. I RAN.

CHINA wants to make love to you (Hangzhou Version)

Yungang grottos exhibition in Hangzhou - amazing use of 3D printing tech...

Bamboo and Tea in Hangzhou, China

Me and David Bowie together for the first time ever....

She said "Let's go to a NIGHT MARKET" - She got a dark side...

Let's go to a night market she said...

Xinjiang Noodles in the muslim noodle place in Hangzhou, China

Handmade Muslim noodles are the best...

Walking Meditation in Hangzhou, China

 Re-write of an article written in 2012 - submitted to an online Hangzhou magazine recently

Walking along the Nine Creeks in the Misty Forest finds you in a truly magical collection of mountains, trees, creeks and running water. On this outing one walks the trails––winding and climbing; the creeks - murmuring and gurgling; the trees - high and low––at one with the poet YuYuelai who wrote these words during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). It is a place that has always been special for humans.

 

Walking the hills and tracks forces one to practise one of the main tenets of walking meditation – that of moving the feet. Buddhists are instructed to be mindful of four stages in each step: (i) lifting the foot; (ii) moving it forward; (iii) putting it down; and (iv) touching or pressing the foot on the ground.

 

And step by step, as I travelled these ways, I entered the meditative state of mind simply by putting one foot in front of the other, or as some practitioners suggest ‘stepping, stepping, stepping.’

 

Walking the meandering creeks and twisted paths, famous since the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), onehas to be aware of these actions because to put a foot wrong means a turned ankle or worse. By increasing our awareness of our bodies actions we also become increasingly aware of things outside of ourselves, objects we might trip over, other people we might walk into. We become more aware of these, and many of the other things outside of ourselves, than when we are just sitting––especially if we sit inside. These include the wind, the sun, the rain, and the sounds of nature and of humans and machines.

 

But as one finds the natural rhythm (and using a pair of trekking poles forces you into such a rhythm) you find that each and every footstep forms part of a natural mantra. And as the length of the walk progresses, it becomes easier to enter into the detached but aware state that walking meditation facilitates.

 

While walking long distances there will always be feelings associated with our bodies, from the niggling pain of a blister to the pleasant feeling of relaxation. There will also be feelings associated with the things we see and hear, and with all of the other sensory modalities that we experience––including those that are imagined.

 

In paying attention to feelings, the important thing is simply to notice them without either clinging to them or pushing them away. When we are unaware, it is very common for our minds to start grasping after experiences associated with pleasant feelings.

 

Many people say to me when I am out walking that I’ll “be able to have some thinking time––to sort things out,” but it always seems to me that when walking I actually have very little ‘thinking time.’  My mind becomes attuned to the mantra of walking, my eyes to the path ahead and my body to experiencing the sensations of physical activity.  By experiencing our sensations, rather than thinking about them, we help to cut down on unproductive thinking and bring about more calmness.

 

Walking in places such as the Mystery Forest allows us to ‘be in the moment.’ That moment where we can fill our mind with the richness of the experience of walking, leaving less room for daydreaming and fantasy and becoming deeply aware of our present experience, which becomes far more fulfilling than any daydream.

 

This detached state then becomes an integral part of the ‘Art of Walking’. The Buddhist monk Thick Nhat Hanh tells us that “If we practise walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive. We have to be alive with each step, and if we are, each step brings real life back to us. The purpose is to be in the present moment and enjoy each step you make.”

 

Walking alone along these ancient byways is a pure exercise in walking meditation and each step becomes a prayer and each mile dharma.

The MOST BORING video to come out of CHINA - PART 3- you have been warned.

A walk along the Grand Canal Hangzhou, China Oct 2020