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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One of the most beautiful festivals celebrated in Thailand is that of Loy Krathong. It falls on the November full moon night. Loy means float and Krathong leaf bowl or wreath. All over Thailand people make these wonderfully decorated floats out of folded banana leaves and artistically arranged jasmine,orchids and chrysanthemum flowers. Candles and sticks [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Probably it is a trait found more in woman. Inquisitiveness. But then you could say it’s because we are just more interested in certain things. Standing in line at the Supermarket for instance. I don’t know about you, but I always look at what everybody else has in their trolley,and in the few seconds it [...]
