Unless you have been walking around Pattaya with your eyes closed, you must have realised that Fun City has a thriving Go-Go Bar industry, one I am sure you will agree, is the main reason 10,000’s of mail tourists visit our fair city each year, not to mention the many thousands of ex-pats who make [...]
Quick Tip
Feather dusters are cheap and popular here in Thailand, but they do little more than move dust and dirt from one area to another. In the process, they commonly leave behind more than a few feathers. Consider more efficient options such as a dust cloth and/or a vacuum cleaner.
Hot It’s Not
My condominium doesn’t allow [...]
As we make our way back to the hotel after dinner, I have a song ringing in my head. The plain Australian voice and simple plinky-plonk guitar are persistent. It’s ‘A Pub With No Beer’, a humorous little number which made it big for Slim Dusty back in 1959. I was much too young to [...]
Cash for the 2012 Olympics
LOTTERY games launched five years ago to raise cash for the 2012 Olympics have so far raked in only two-thirds of their target total.
Camelot announced it has raised £500 million from the Olympic-themed games giving it just two years to reach its £750 million goal. The cash raised from games including [...]
I have an ethical question for you. It’s not often I pose such questions because I try not to concern myself with making moral judgements for or about other people. But this very serious question has to do with relationships and it has haunted me for some time. It can apply anywhere in the world, [...]
Nightmare! It is a trail to know what to eat for the best if you love to go out to and socialise. In Pattaya the night life can be so important for the perfect evening, for most of us to find the correct setting. It is a personal choice.
Thinking of what we would like to [...]
After a month in the UK it is a delight to be back here, to wake up and see the sea, to walk on the beach, dress in shorts, T shirts and sandals in the wonderfully warm weather. It is a far cry from the ball-chilling winds and icicle rain of a typical, miserable UK [...]
Quick Tip
Got a messy collection of tangled electric, telephone and appliance cords? Use empty toilet paper rolls to store them. Easy, convenient and free, the rolls keep cords neat. And you can write on each roll which appliance the cord is for.
Beelieve It
A friend said I do not need to store honey in the refrigerator [...]
I read today about a chap in India who has 14 wives. He managed to marry each one without the others knowing, using friends to stand in for his father and uncle at each of the wedding ceremonies. They now live in 14 different houses.
What he did was naughty and wrong and you shouldn’t try [...]
English Pupils in Minority
AROUND one in seven youngsters in primary school, almost 500,000, do not have English as their first language. In secondary schools the figure stands at 364,000 just over in 10.
At Nelson Primary in Newham, three quarters of pupils are now not native English speakers and some 56 different languages are spoken. Many [...]
