A new life at 67.Can a woman start all over again?

Archive for November, 2010

A Good Read

There are some really positive things about being single.Especially if you are lucky enough like me to be to be living in a luxury apartment in Thailand until the UK throws off winters grips. I “reside” in a two bedroom,two bathroom apartment.That means I don’t just have one cleaning lady,I have two.They come with the [...]

A Touch of the Tropics

There is no escape. Everyone travelling or staying in the tropics gets hit by it sooner or later. The situation where your poor western stomach says,enough is enough of this eastern food. You don’t really know whether it was the deep fried cockroaches you had for dinner the night before,or the cheddar cheese sandwich with [...]

Should I do Bali?

Here comes the difficult part of being alone again. Diminished funds. Forty years of not having to consider very much whether I could afford it or not gets to be a habit. Of course if I had considered it then,I might not have had to consider it so much today, but that is beside the point [...]

Saving Money

You might ask what I am doing in Thailand for the winter months. Not exactly the place for a single woman to go if she was looking for a western man,much too much competition from young Asian women. No,I am certainly not looking for another man,I am  here for several other reasons; I hate the [...]

Thai Dawn

The dawn comes up early in Thailand. The hills take on their misty silhouette and a cooling breeze pushes it’s way through the mosquito screens. Then suddenly, as though observing a conductors baton the birds twitter and sing in unison,hundreds of them. Depending on your mood and at what time you found sleep the night [...]

Yesterdays Roses

Yesterday was my 40th wedding anniversary.No that is not completely true.It would have been, but then I was divorced on September the 7th,so I suppose I will have to start again from that date.Yes,I think I will do that because I like celebrating things. What do you think? Of course there will be no red [...]

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