I managed to actually get away for a couple of nights in between Christmas and New Year.
Continue reading ‘Koh Sichang’
Archive for the 'Ego' Category
A week in Southport would once have seemed the dullest of destinations.
But having now lived in a variety of elsewheres for about seven and a half years, I think I’ve spent long enough away to appreciate what can be a surprisingly pleasant town.
Perhaps absence makes the heart grow fonder, and I’ve no doubt that I’d be bored silly if I were to spend years, or even months actually living there again, but yet a week was not quite enough.
I hadn’t been back to England for almost two years, and quite aside from family and friends there was so much more that I’d missed without even realising it.
Continue reading ‘Dear Old Blighty’
I am useless at this, aren’t I?
One thing I have learned is that there’s nothing worse than announcing a hiatus in terms of guaranteeing a total loss of audience, as well as any faint hopes of making time to write – a friend recently wrote in an email that he’d “stumbled across your blog (which I must confess to thinking dead)”. Whoops.
Continue reading ‘Busy busy’
I meant to write something up on Friday May 1, to mark 3 years to the day living in Thailand. I got there in the end.
There’s always something happening in this huge, sprawling city, and life is such a contrast these days to the last (and quietest) place I lived in the UK, Stony Stratford.
There, we used to joke that the town gates were closed nightly at 10pm. They might as well have been. Here, it couldn’t be more different with 24 hour eating, drinking and partying. There are nightclubs a mere stagger from my home that are still going past 10am the following morning. Not that I stay up anywhere near that late these days – age (30 now) takes its toll…
Continue reading ‘Three Years (and eight days)’
The problem with living in the tropics is that the weather is, um, tropical. Looks like the rainy season has started.
Since Songkran, or Thai New Year begins next week, this is not great timing. Songkran is (these days) essentially a week-long national water-fight, where everyone takes a week off work to throw buckets of water and fire high-powered water pistols at each other.
Kind of spoils the fun if it’s already bucketing down with rain. Fingers crossed…
