Being Wary of Honourable Chinese Joke.

One of the charity shops in Ashbourne had two rather large and splendid Chinese banners for sale this week. They were red with black characters running from top to bottom (but probably read the wrong way up knowing those lovely Chinese people who are nothing if not enigmatic when the mood takes them.) I have just the place for one of them on the wall going up my stairs, but there’s a problem: I don’t know what the characters mean and I don’t know anybody who can tell me. For all I know they might say may the lice in your armpit multiply and the Devil urinate on your pet rabbit. Given the way life is for me at the moment, I think I’d better not take the risk.