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 [...]
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 [...]
If ever I needed confirmation of my nagging fear that I was born into the wrong body, I got it last weekend while snorkelling off a few of the Similan islands.
I was definitely supposed to be aquatic – perhaps not a fish as they can be a bit forgetful and I was never one to [...]
According to a recent survey, 45% of ladies employed as dancers in Pattaya go-go bars have a tattoo somewhere on their body. The top locations for the skin-inker’s art are the shoulder, tummy, lower back and leg, usually the left one. Popular subjects depicted in the designs include floral motifs, abstract swirly scroll-shaped things (common [...]
by Mr Pobaan
THE other night, Mrs Pobaan – the light of my life and lead in my pencil – surprised me by suggesting quite suddenly that we throw convention to the winds and go ten-pin bowling. Life should not be all fluffy slippers and hot milky drinks here at Khao Talo Towers, I argued to [...]
by Mr Pobaan
IN WHAT economists call the developed countries, it’s difficult these days to be foreign. In the United States it has long been the case that, since everyone is a foreigner, no-one is. In the big European cities, a similar picture is developing. With around 8% of inhabitants in the major centres having been born [...]
by Mr Pobaan
We are very hospitable folk at Khao Talo Towers. Our door is always open to friends who wish to drop in, and places at our table can always be laid to accommodate the appetites of our visitors. That’s easy for me to say, of course, but it’s my perfect wife and life companion, [...]
