Hints and tips:
...Colouring still showed on these clay “buds”, which had holes in their tips too, some of which may have held real flowers....
...Zhejiang’s data was just the tip of the iceberg, he said....
...The enforcement of non-negotiable $100 tips for hearse drivers is one example. Another: charging mourners $35 for a small pot of tea while their dearly departed is mid-cremation....
...Low Jeet Thayil, Faber, RRP£14.99 Low is set over a weekend in Mumbai, where, direct from his wife’s cremation, Dominic Ullis has headed in search of drug-catalysed oblivion....
...“What you did is you actually brought them a carton of cigarettes for a tip,” Mr Habermann recalled. That may no longer be the custom....
...(And cremation, apparently....
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