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SOF | OVERSEAS BAG 2024
He continues to host regular dinner
China
/Hong Kong
parties. “One of the most amusing
reasons for declining my invitation to
dinner was from a friend who had been
invited to attend the King’s coronation in
the British Consulate. At another dinner,
a lady friend gave me a backhanded
compliment, “Chris you haven’t changed”,
she said, “but then when you were 30,
you looked 80.” One of my friends, K C
Ho, liked my pink suit but decided to go
better and had an even brighter pink suit
made for himself. He then found that there
was no opportunity to wear his splendid
new out昀椀t, so I arranged a dinner for him,
his wife and daughter where we all wore
pink and celebrated with a bottle of pink
champagne.”
Robert Holland (R57-65) sent a very
early Christmas message in October
2023, but for good reason. “After over
a quarter of a century of happily living
the life of lotus eaters in Penang, we have
decided to leave and like the 昀氀otsam and
Chris Hall (G62-69) sent a long and
jetsam of empire, drift once more onto
interesting Christmas 2023 message
the hotel-fringed beaches of Hong Kong,
which you can read in full in the full version
and so with e昀昀ect from 1 March 2024 our
of the Overseas Bag. During the year he
address will be in Lantau, Hong Kong
continued his addiction to Chinese textiles
SAR.” They visited the UK and managed a
with an online bid or two when some
trip to Framlingham. “Sadly, it is unlikely
items came up for auction in Texas. He
that I will ever see the delightful market
concluded with: “I succeeded in getting
town of Framlingham again, although it
the two most important lots I wanted, and
greatly in昀氀uenced the early years of my
consequently ended the evening a much
life and holds so much of my a昀昀ection.” In
poorer man. It will not surprise you to
March 2024 he reported that the move
read that at the end of the year I was still
had gone smoothly, and were having the
heavily in debt because of my addiction to
昀氀at refurbished while enjoying a 21-day
collecting Chinese textiles. However, as I
cruise.
say, life is not worth living if you can’t go
shopping.”
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