Holding the tyre on!

This bicycle was in one of the side streets in central Shaoxing. It appears that the tyre is being held on by some rag. It may well be that the rag is to hold the rather balding tyres to the icy road early in the morning.

The cart is actually a rubbish cart - possibly one of the Shaoxing council vehicles, though I'm not sure. Rather amusing.

Fuyang Paper making place.

This home made cart was in the paper making place at Fuyang. At this place the ancient art of making paper from bamboo is still carried on. The paper is used for art, and there is much paper manufactured here.

No doubt, somewhere in Fuyang there is a factory where the process is automated.

This cart would be used to carry the big piles of paper, or books or other items.

The rubbish cart

This poor delapidated rubbish cart is in the grounds of the apartment block of my friend in Shanghai. Another friend from Shaoxing went to stay with her and on our first morning she had rubbish to deposit in this cart, which is taken away for recycling and disposal.

It was such a quaint and old piece of equipment, it just begged me to get my camera out and take a photo, much to the amusement of another Chinese gentleman passing who burst out laughing as he waved the French breadstick that he had apparently just purchased.

A good laugh all around, I think.