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The inordinately talented Beate Thiesmeyer and Michael Sälzer are currently in China as part of a select group of German ceramicists chosen to create works for the Ceramic Arts Centre in Fuping.

I helped Michael (who's become something of a mate over the last year or so) to set up a blog (www.keramixinchina.blogspot.com) to report on their progress.
In German, which is a shame, because Beate's a crash-hot journalist and she deserves a wider audience.

So I figured I'd use the internet kiosk in the Patients' Games and Reading Room here at the asylum to get up to speed.

Type in the URL and up flashes 'Access Denied – Objectionable Content'

It appears they've been using words like 'Great Wall of China' and 'Breakfast'

And – worst of all – 'Noodle Soup'.

They need to go and wash their mouths out with soap…….