One of the most interesting things about reading a blog is when something totally out of the ordinary happens to them, and they write it up.

JP is someone I met in passing in NG1 back in the days when I still went there (so more than four years ago now) and have had in my MSN contact list since, even though I haven’t actually spoken to him. He cropped up blogging in links from Reluctant Nomad (now in Amsterdam) and Troubled Diva.

His company send him to China periodically to do recruitment. His description of Beijing and working in China are interesting enough by themselves to make his blog worth reading.

But then suddenly one day last year, he got hit by a bus in Beijing. Literally. Forgot a bus lane had traffic going the wrong way on a one way street, and he walked out in front of one. Suddenly the blog went quiet, and his friends in the UK posted messages about how things were going.

Last week he resurrected his own blog to give his point of view. Happily, all seemed to end well, although it was pretty scary at the time.