Month: June 2014

Claiming Job Seekers after returning from abroad

So back to the UK.

Obtaining a valid Z visa for a UK national applying outside either the UK or CHINA is nigh on impossible.

Back in the UK

It’s not a social visit. There is nothing that ties me to the UK. I need:

  • A new passport
  • Process a new VISA
  • Get the money to leave the country

Maybe weeks, maybe months. Certainly not long-term unemployed. More transitionary.

Went to the jobcenter in Madeley, just down the road from where I’m living at the moment – Broseley. Continue reading “Claiming Job Seekers after returning from abroad”

Top 10 apps for visitors to China

If you’re planning a trip, or maybe living there as an expat, these are the apps you’re going to want to have installed to your phone to get the most from your experience.

They are my

Top 10 apps for China

Hanping Chinese Camera - china-app
1) Hanping Camera

Takes pictures of text and converts them to English language. Used it quite helpfully on the train to Guangdong, it will have problems if your phone doesn’t have a good camera or if you’ve got shaky hands.
I went through the entire interpretation of the Chinese menu with a Chinese girl, and it got them all correct.
Can’t be bad!
Download at Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.embermitre.hanping.app.reader.pro Continue reading “Top 10 apps for visitors to China”

False widow – Steatoda

As they are known.

These are dinky little creatures. Fluffy and cute, like a spider, eats it’s husband (all good women do this) not only this, but has some markings similar to the highly venomous Black Widow spider.

Now I am a resident of the UK for a short while, and I picked this one up in the garden.

False Widow Spider
False Widow Spider

I’m not usually dispossessed to picking up strange spiders, but I could see the markings on it’s back and wanted a closer look.

Mostly harmless, but a slight record as a bit of a minature bad-boy, as UK spiders go.

Mine seemed AWFULLY FRIENDLY, (I’m sure that’s because I’m just fresh back in the UK), liked my arm very much!

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