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January 3, 2016

Soviet Sanatorium (Lessons in Nudity)

The Former Soviet Union, the USSR, winner of a billion medals at the Olympics, KGB, dodgy accents in James Bond films. I shouldn’t idealise things. Although I end up doing...

Bon Aniv

December 30, 2015

Happy Birthday Blog!

It’s been a year now since I’ve started this rattling on, self-absorbed ramblings about not very much. Happy Birthday Blog! Some choice self-realisation (discovery is too grand a word) this...

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October 26, 2015

(Not so ) Grand Designs: old Condo In Chiang Mai part 2

So, it’s done! Right…this is the part where I’m supposed to write something useful for people who may be thinking of something similar: a) it would be easier of you...

Russian Girls 2

October 25, 2015

Large Oven Calorie Bomb Series (with some old records thrown in)

I spent my Sunday shopping; the mission (which UH chose to accept) was to find decent winter boots and a black fitted turtle neck. First stop, the souvenir shop looking...

In the market

September 15, 2015

Notes from a small landlocked Central Asian Country…

Yuvah Noel Harari’s Sapiens is a cracker of a book! Of course recommended by Useless Husband, the half with the intellect and taste to pick something like this up while...

Sweets and scales

September 7, 2015

Sweets, Scales and Sorry State of Affairs

So the Fatty in me has fully, unashamedly embraced the SmartPhone. Garmin and FitnessPal have a new friend: Scales (previously Manage My Weight, but they did not include detailed body...

Sheltered in a car

April 15, 2015

The Sabai-sabai kind of life: Songkran!

There’s the graceful Loy Krathong, the floating white lanterns at New Year, flower shows, night bazaars but nothing beats the mother of all celebrations…SONGKRAN!! Songkran can inspire joy, fear or...

Night corrected blog

April 4, 2015

Usual garden variety stuff (not so interesting blog…)

I watched an interview with Garance Dore and she said she started her blog to get some good honest feedback on her work as an illustrator. I’m neither that ambitious...