The child tricycled around the driveway until dark.

At Milton the road is blocked by yet another Anzac parade, a straggle of people raw-faced in the cold.

Salamet Memetimin, the communist party secretary for Chaka township’s Bekchan village, in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Chira (Cele) county, was among 97 officials recently charged with disciplinary violations, according to an April 10 report by the state-run Hotan Daily newspaper.

Pressing an imaginary button, Crichton said, Bzzt! Wrong answer.