Successful Strive Jul 31 - Poster in the YSW ferry pier, getting ready for renovation, lasting till well into 2021. Harry's Gig Posters Jul 26 - Some of the very best of Harry Harrison's poster artworks for Lamma events! All-Around Sunrise Jul 25 - Very first sunrise photos from our brand-new village house's rooftop. Tour and/or Pub Crawl? Jul 24 - I mistook this very nice poster for humourosly announcing kind of a daily pub crawl. I Live on a Tropical Island Jul 23 - "I live on a tropical island, covered in a fervent fertile jungle settled by concrete villages..." Sauntering Around YSW Jul 21 - A few random photos and captions taken while strolling around YSW. YSW Ferry Pier Improvement Works Jul 20 - Preliminary, Proposed Layout Plans & Photomontages. 17 Years! Jul 19 - Whoaah! 17 years already, longest-lasting job, err, lowest-income "Labour of Love" of my life! Lamma Marinade Jul 18 - A new Chin. chef introducing a completely new menu of Chin. specialties. Feeling Safe in the Lamma Jungle Jul 17 - 7 locks on the new flat door that our new, great landlord got installed yesterday. Riot... Jul 16 - This will be your only chance to witness a "riot" in our (almost) always peaceful island community. Still Enchanted by Sunsets Jul 15 - June and July are the best months for HK sunset/sunrise photos. Hyperlocal and Proud of It! Jul 14 - Calls and emails from major HK newspapers requesting my photos arrived. No More Broadband, Watch Sunset Instead Jul 13 - First sunset from atop our new village house. Lamma Democracy Wall Resurrected Jul 12 - New name: Lamma Lennon Wall. Carrie Caption Contest Jul 11 - Winner of a free round for two at Lamma Grill: Carrie Lam Opens YSW Library Jul 10 - Opening ceremony of our new YSW Library, feat. surprise VIP, CE Carrie Lam. New Home Sweet Home Jul 9 - We've moved from one village house to another one in this same village. Full Moon Sunrise Jul 8 - Full Moon Sunrise, shot in the opposite direction of the actual sunrise. June 18. Moving Jun 20 - Jul 7 - My PC and the Lamma-zine are taking a break for most of the duration of our mega move.

Poster in the YSW ferry pier, getting ready for renovation, lasting till well into 2021. Detailed plans...

Some of the very best of Harry Harrison's poster artworks for Lamma events! Click to view them all.

Very first sunrise photos from our brand-new village house's rooftop, 6am today: all-around sunrise, golden-reddish clouds in all directions!   

Huw Andrews:

"I live on a tropical island, covered in a fervent fertile jungle settled by concrete villages with restaurants, bars, shops, schools and churches though, thankfully O Lord, no cars.

Our jungle is a green harlequin, dense, dark and bright, with creepers, crawlers and waxy broad-leafed flora, fruity or colourful. It is immortal, immune in aggregate to the frequent fires, the chopping of our busy caretakers and the monstrous winds of our typhoon season.

In its damp, matted, rooty shaded undergrowth frogs low, croak and multiply whilst serpents silently stalk, ambush and multiply. Where there be frogs, there be snakes a plenty and where there be adventurous cats, there be ambitious growing pythons. Ying and yang.

Late at night, snakes steal into the villages, then when dawn dawns they climb to hide above head height in housings for roll-down metal shop-front shutters or in hidy holes or under equipment at toe level. Mostly they traverse camouflaged invisible our leafy steps and pathways to shock themselves and others with inadvertent encounter.

The whole island is latticed clumsily with walk-ways irregular in material, height and safety so dogs, villagers, and on nocturnal occasion wild boar, can amble easily between villages, houses, utility installations and hill-top viewing pagodas.

My modern medieval village Yung Shue Wan, has one main street, no system or symmetry to its topography or to the placement of new houses as it booms. It has no pavements, poor drainage and pedestrian WIFI, a curse and blessing. Rubbish is collected in bins at street ends and scattered over night by rummaging rooting boar or hill dogs.

Its shops are family operated, rudimentary but loved and tended. They are not the branded, foot-fall managed show-case outlets of the main island staffed by minimum-wage attendants with no skin in the shame. Trusted locals short of lucre, can pay later, occasionally.

Here over millennia us humans here have gently evolved, the locals from fishermen to fishermen still, store keepers and wealthy landlords and the ex-pats from pure-bred pedigree hippies to teachers whose incandescence attracts now a sprinkling of other professionals.

Lamma is relaxed. Whilst others return from work and dress up to go out, with creased shirts, dresses and skirts, handbags and man bags, our lot come home and dress down.

All villagers live as much outside as in, so the place imparts an untidy but colourful feel as
goods, rusting equipment and drying clothes are stored or discarded outside under corrugated roofs, sun bleached tarpaulins and awnings.

Lamma's seven thousand souls are a 30 mins cruise by catamaran ferry from Hong Kong, world city of seven million souls, of human bio-diversity, entertainment, employment, stress, tempo, noise and distraction.

'Washed up in Yung Shu Wan' ~ by Roz Keep
Acrylics on Fast Food Box ~ $500.

The ferries ferry passengers and chattel to the pier at the end of Main Street and wash their cargo ashore, flotsam and jetsam arriving in waves every 20, 30 or 60 mins depending on time and tide. All best observed with a gin and tonic and tapas from a seat outside Carlos's.

Hong Kong is the best part of China, Lamma is the best part of Hong Kong. Whilst Hong Kong makes Lamma, also Lamma makes Hong Kong. And fair exchange is no robbery, I am content in my tropical sweaty home."

High praise has been pouring in from Huw's many friends and Lammaites:

"Goodness Huw, poet laureate in the making, a truly stunning piece of creative writing!"

The Lamma-zine heartily agrees and will be very happy to publish more of Huw's writings, all with his permission, of course.

A few random photos and captions taken while strolling around YSW, smartphone camera always ready: