Blackthorn winters were most severe; (I.) a week at the end of March; (II.) April 13th to 26th. Two perennial springs, in different ranges of hills, failed.

...our modern man in Hong Kong excuses himself to go to the gents'. The broad window overlooking the lights of Hong Kong in the gents' loo is astonishingly elevated too, and as he relieves himself, gazing out into the night of diamond dust, across the fairy glimmering of the city, he feels something shift in a subtle way...

A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion.

As the country continues to wrestle with one of the greatest upheavals to everyday life in recent memory, passenger numbers have had a turbulent 'snakes and ladders' journey - and continue to lag behind pre-pandemic levels.