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 [...]
It is stormy here in Thailand. In Hua Hin,we don’t notice it much, except everybody seems to know somebody that is stuck at the International Airport in Bangkok. I went with a friend to the Immigration Buro early this morning to make sure I wouldn’t have trouble leaving or getting back into the country again [...]
A lot of water has flown down the Chao Phraya since I last wrote a post.It doesn’t mean that I didn’t think about writing but I was experiencing so many different things,meeting interesting people and feeling a little like a Thai. No news is good news. With the help of new friends I was lucky [...]
It has been raining on and off for the last four days.We had a break in the clouds late this afternoon so I decided to wager the walk down the half flooded road towards the beach. With a bit of luck the rain would hold off for a while and I could enjoy a long [...]
“There but for fortune” Is one of my favourite Joan Baez songs. When I see under privileged human beings her words are always there. Here in Thailand she sings for me every day. For the women,smothered in clothes,working in the scorching sun as labourers on the building sites. For the emaciated people trying to make [...]
I am not lonely living here in Thailand.In fact I have already found a really true friend. He is rather shy,so he doesn’t like to be around much during the day,but as soon as it gets dark,which is about sixish he visits me. I call him Alexander. He doesn’t dare to come into my apartment,but [...]
Today is the big day. I am booked on a flight to Bangkok tonight. The stamp in my passport says I am allowed to stay for a year in the land of smiles,and my life is now in one suitcase. I’m not sure I like the feeling inside of me. I will take my laptop,and [...]
Living and working in Switzerland,wasn’t so easy in the beginning.The cultural differences between the swinging city of London in the late sixties, and a farming village in Switzerland,even though only twenty miles from Zürich were enormous. It was my Mother-in-Law, probably taking pity on me, who told me I wasn’t the only English speaking woman [...]
Yesterday was one of those perfect late summer days,and my watercolour painting class took off to capture,or maybe not,the beauty of the nearby lake. Although we are now only four pupils the course still started again last week. My teacher congratulated me on my new size block of paper and large brush,and was indeed very [...]
Can’t seem to concentrate on anything these days. Time doesn’t flow by, it rushes like a raging torrent towards the last day of September. Last week,even the pain returned,that which always makes itself evident in some kind of joint or muscle in my body when I am going through a bad patch. The medical practitioners [...]
