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I had a really pleasant surprise today when Beijing Renmin Guang Buo Dian Tai (Beijing’s People’s Radio) presented me with a lovely award. I got second prize for the best interview on their station. Its not often I win prizes, in fact I’ve only won 2, conker champion on Barfield school in 1981 and British [...]

In the quest to continue to create something new I had an idea to work with local tattoo artists I randomly met one day through my dear friend Li Peng of Reflector Band fame. He introduced me to Wang Ke and her husband, they have their own tattoo studio on Bei Luo Gu Xiang. I [...]

When I moved to Nan Luo Gu Xiang in 2003 with my family to pursue our dream of living in a shared courtyard and create a big family I never expected Nan Luo Gu Xiang to boom the way it has. After I opened Plastered in May 2006 I watched the street flourish, lots of [...]

About one year ago my eldest daughter Prudence (wang Tian Tian) gave me the idea to create some stain glass images for the shop. I had 4 artists work on 4 different Chinese leaders and the graphic results were stunning. Now finally I have all 4 as glass windows. They arrived all the way from [...]

I’m feeling British today! Which is strange because after spending half of my life here in Beijing I sometimes forget where I’m from. The reason I’m feeling more British than usual is because of the chap in this photo, the new British Ambassador to China, Sebastian Wood CMG. A couple of weeks ago I was [...]

Sun Zi and the artof War Reality TV program
 
Last summer I spent 3 weeks being filmed by BBC reality TV crew who were filming a show called Sun Zi Art the of War. Its a 13 part series and in each program they film 13 businesses around the world and then break down those businesses [...]

I’ve done a tone of TV shows but usually on my own and these shows cover a lot of topics. This show I had no idea was so popular until I walked out of my home on Friday and got recognised by every other person I walked past. My poor wife who was also pulled [...]

 
The glorious set of stain glass icons is nearly finished, here is the last member to the team of 4. Zhou En Lai, designed by French/Chinese artist Tian Tian I can’t wait for this one to be made into a glass window. The stain glass makers are all the way down in Jiang Xu province [...]

Here’s a cracking new documentary the lovely people from BTV filmed last month and aired the last few days. Its about me and my life on Nan Luo Gu Xiang with my family etc. It also features a lot of my close friends who run small businesses around Nan Luo Gu Xiang.

Here is my experience on China’s biggest pop culture tv show kuai le da ben ying. 快乐大本营 After the show was aired the shops have been notably more busy which is nice not to mention the odd taxi driver and young Beijingers pointing me out on the street.