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I know. I may have promised no further posts involving temples, but I find myself being dragged ever deeper into this alternative and s...

I’ve been going on about sorting out a proper driveway ever since I moved in this house but we’ve come around to thinking that we both qu...

Cafe Amazon is a Thai coffee chain with over 2400 branches scattered about Thailand. They are owned by the huge oil company, PTT with e...

After three weeks away, we came home to find the garden an even bigger bomb site than usual. It had been raining and my efforts to keep...

This last week, there has been a local festival to Samui and the Southern areas of Thailand in which floats festooned with Buddhist imag...

Last Monday, one of Fon's relatives, who lives about fifty yards down the road, was getting married and as is tradition, there had to be ...

The Skyline restaurant in Pontefract. OMG. That font!! Back in the UK, the wife soon tires of bread and potatoes and craves a taste of h...

My little boy is ill. About three weeks ago we noticed blood in his urine and called the vet who told us it was quite common and to brin...

For the last twelve months I've been tutoring 12 and 15 year old sisters in Maths. Yes. That's maths with an 's'. Don't get me started! ...

I have absolutely no idea what this fly is, but at around 2cm in length, he was quite a big one! The colours are beautiful and he(?) sat...

After reading @livinguktaiwans ‘s recent Garden report I thought it was time to do the same, and like LUT, have had some, ‘mixed fortunes...

Just another small job on the endless to-do list was to fit an additional outdoor tap. We had one, I use it for my hose pipe, but after b...

A couple of weeks back we were in Bangkok for the weekend and staying in a hotel built on top of my the biggest IT mall, and one of my f...

During my trip back to the UK at Christmas, I was showing my cousin some photos of Koh Samui which he was quite impressed with. This was...

It's been a very odd couple of weeks, so to start, no. Not a 'joke' headline. I've actually got a mate from Kazakhstan who brought me ba...

I may have mentioned before how we don't appear to be on the best of terms with the owners of the land next door. How much of this is fa...

The wife had a fellow OT friend down from Chiang Mai with her partner for their first visit to Samui so we decided to go full-on touris...

I really have to start by wishing people Happy New Year. Its been a while as life overtook me a little for the last six weeks. Work was ...

Yes. I know I promised to never again post about Thai food, but this is in Thailand but not Thai.... Anyway, I'd been looking for a loca...

The wife's cousin recently had a new baby boy. Congratulations are obviously in order. This was her second child, her first being a litt...

Yes. Before your very eyes, an Android box with Netflix and all its other delights, running on a 30-year-old, old-skool telly! No. Not m...

I've complained a lot recently about our lack of rain but as we were thinking the rainy season wasn't going to happen, it happened, and ...

No. It's not a photo of a cat that's been squashed by an aircon. He lives under there, and has been doing for almost three months and we...

It had been a good weekend. My new bit of wall was finished, there were no cancellations and just a minor wheelbarrow issue that was qui...

There was just the rendering and ramp to complete. On time, on budget and looking straight (ish)! Talking of budget, I'll show you the c...

Day two, and things had progressed better than expected! The shuttering came off, the posts looked pretty straight and the local mom an...

I just wanted a slightly sloped concrete threshold from the road into the yard. I wanted to do it myself... ...but no. There was a cousi...

Don't worry. It's dead. It wasn't actually dangerous when it was alive but something still troubles me... I woke up yesterday morning to...

Nothing to see here. Just a bloke taking his 🐃 buffalo for a walk. As you do! Buffaloes play a large part in Thai culture being traditio...

As the last case of the day, and new case to us, left with his parents, I popped my head around the door of the therapy room to see the ...