A tour of Hong Kong Island included a visit to a jewellery factory (no pressure to buy but 20% off if you buy today). One of the items being offered very enthusiastically was Chinese Zodiac Pendants – find you own Chinese birth year on the chart and select the corresponding pendant. The couple from Australia were looking at them and the woman, who was neither a natural beauty nor in the first flush of youth, was undecided. Her husband without irony told her that the pendant for the year of the dog looked great on her – I remain undecided as to whether he was just very evil or very stupid.
