Our bus tour guide in Honk Kong used her limited English with interesting variants. It took me a while to realize that the ‘Typhoon Shelters’ of which she spoke were not some variant of Anderson Shelter to house fleeing locals from the storm but harbours – quite logical really. What was not so understandable were her continual references to Hong Kong as a 'conolly'. Now the Big Yin has been responsible for many things not least of which was making my Sister-in-law wet her knickers laughing, but the opium wars and the subjugation of the Chinese are an accusation too far.
