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12 Feb 08
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Musing Amusedly (If you’ve arrived at this blog as a result of clicking on a link left in the comments section of your own blog, then please click on this link for further information)
It’s a funny old life, uh? I say this because if two weeks ago you’d asked me ... |
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01 Feb 08
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I Did Not Leave a Comment on Your Blog or Forum If you’ve arrived at this blog by clicking on a link in a comment left on your own blog or a comment left in a forum (a comment supposedly left by me) then I’m sorry to tell you that you have been deceived – but not by me.
I rarely leave comments on... |
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28 Jan 08
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Paint Jobbers Back in the days when a forum was something that we’d only ever heard of in Roman history lessons, when websites were places where lots of spiders lived, and Bluetooth was a rather unwelcome cosmetic condition I used to earn my living performing a j... |
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23 Jan 08
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You Wouldn’t See This in Liverpool Today I have another photograph of an interesting automotive paint job to show you (for previous photos of automotive paint jobs please click on this link). But I have to confess that it’s very mischievous of me to publish this particular photo here ... |
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18 Jan 08
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Airbrush Artistry Gives Rise to A Useful Thai Expression or Two As I strolled in and around the coastal resorts of Petchaburi Province one of the many things that constantly impressed me was the magnificent artistry that adorns the exteriors of the tour buses that visit the area. Some of these tour buses, like the... |
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14 Jan 08
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More Cha-am Observations I took the photo shown above as we strolled from the Fishing Pier back towards the beach road in Cha-am. You can click on the photo to enlarge it.
The photo was taken during the early afternoon, and at the time of taking it the sun was blazing down,... |
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06 Jan 08
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A Bird, A Naughty Word, A Fish and a Proverb Today I have a few photos of creatures that I saw during my recent visit to The Fishing Pier in Cha-am to show you. And also I have a little of what I’ve learned about the Thai language to share with you too. I hope that you’re going to enjoy it. ... |
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02 Jan 08
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A Tightrope Walker Monitored from Below I was sitting in a generously large café (which probably prefers to be referred to as a restaurant) at the Fishing Pier when the boat featured in the first photo on today’s entry drew into port. You can click on the photo to enlarge it.
The capt... |
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01 Jan 08
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Happy New Year! I wish you, the readers of Doodee’s Thailand, a most excellent New Year. I hope that the year ahead brings you good health, good fortune, happiness, peace of mind, and shedloads of fun!
Happy New Year!
Have a great two thousand and eight!!!
The ne... |
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29 Dec 07
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The Fishing Pier The first photo on today’s entry on Doodee’s Thailand shows an area of Cha-am which is commonly known as The Fishing Pier. The Fishing Pier is situated at the mouth of a small river at the northern end of Cha-am.
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25 Dec 07
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Season’s Greetings It’s Christmas Day. We’re in Cha-am*. Here in Cha-am the weather’s hot and the sun is shining. And in my heart the sun is shining too.
I wish all of you, the readers of Doodee’s Thailand, a most finely frolicsome festive season and I send ... |
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15 Dec 07
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Return to Bangkok For four of the last five months, and in fact up until only a few weeks ago, I was living a blissfully peaceful life on the north-west coast of the Gulf of Thailand. During my days there Her@Home and I spent much of our time strolling along the beach... |
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30 Nov 07
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A Blogging Busy Time I know that there’s a significant number of you who really enjoy reading Doodee’s Thailand. I know this because you pop back regularly to see if the blog’s been updated or not. And also an encouragingly large number of you contact me and you tell ... |
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27 Oct 07
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Strolling Past Fishing Boats and an Unexpected Drama The first photo on today’s entry on Doodee’s Thailand is another one of the photos that I took during a recent beach-bound stroll that I enjoyed with Her@Home. You can click on the photo to enlarge it.
The above photo shows a genuine, fully-equip... |
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23 Oct 07
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Puffed Out I took the above photo during one of our many strolls along Thailand’s beaches. As you can see it shows a dog carrying an item approximately the size of a football in its mouth. The next picture should give you a better idea of what the item that t... |
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20 Oct 07
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Searching in the Sand As I strolled along the beach the other day I happened upon the person shown in the foreground and the small group of people shown at the extreme right of the above photo. When I first saw them it was quite obvious to me that they were working, but I... |
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15 Oct 07
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A Belated Blog Entry from an Old Beach Bum Dude I’ve been planning to post to Doodee’s Thailand for more than two weeks now. But my plans have been consistently hijacked, at first by life’s everyday occurrences and routines, and more latterly by problems with internet access.
When I’m in... |
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27 Sep 07
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Three Celebrations, and a Most Fun Venue Just recently I seem to have been telling you a lot about birthday celebrations in Thailand. I don’t intend to make birthday celebrations an endlessly recurring topic on this blog, but nonetheless I feel that I need to conclude this brief series for y... |
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23 Sep 07
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A Quirky Birthday Thing There are certain things in life that we think will remain the same forever. Three such things that occur to me are the joy of an evening spent with good friends, the beauty of womankind, and the words of the song “Happy Birthday to You”. I’m sur... |
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19 Sep 07
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Livingstone’s, I Presume In the recent entry on Doodee’s Thailand Happy Returns I mentioned a little about the manner in which we celebrated the morning of Her@Home’s birthday. Today I’d like to tell you a little more about how her birthday continued.
So, I expect that i... |
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17 Sep 07
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A Very Sad September Sunday I don’t usually comment about news items. But there are some items which are so moving, so sad, so dramatic, and so powerful, that it would be inappropriate to allow them to pass by without mention. One such occurrence took place here in Thaila... |
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14 Sep 07
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Happy Returns I know that you folks, the readers of Doodee’s Thailand, are an observant group of people and that it won’t have escaped your attention that I haven’t published anything other than a few brief comments on this blog for a couple of months now. I’d... |
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11 Jul 07
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Talking of PCs and Pattaya PCs - Personal Computers: My PC is still flatly refusing to cooperate with me. I’ve tried reasoning with it, persuading it, coaxing it, showering affection on it, and buying it gifts. On two occasions I’ve even resorted to giving it a damn ... |
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04 Jul 07
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The Last Few Days and The Last Twelve Months Last week we made an impromptu excursion to Pattaya. It’s been our intention to make a short visit to the coast for several months now. But each time that we’ve had a visit almost arranged, some unforeseen circumstance has hijacked our plans. Like ... |
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29 Jun 07
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I’ll Be Back I haven’t posted any articles to Doodee’s Thailand for almost a week now. This is because I’ve been having an amazingly good time, and as a result haven’t been able to find a free few minutes in which to type up one of my meandering minikin musing... |
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26 Jun 07
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The Water Floods the Fields As we left Isaan on our return journey to Bangkok I asked our driver to stop in order that I could take the photos for today’s entry on Doodee’s Thailand (you can click on the photos to enlarge them).
The above photo very obviously shows a field th... |
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26 Jun 07
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Rather Nice People sitting beneath a Rather Nice House As I took the photo of the party as featured in A Serious Observance mixed with Some Seriously Good Fun a group of people who were sitting beneath a house on the opposite side of the road, and were also observing the festivities just as I was, emitted a... |
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23 Jun 07
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Subways Situated at Surface Level The first photo on today’s entry on Doodee’s Thailand shows one of my favourite places to eat western-style snack food in Bangkok. The snack bar featured in the photo is a Subway sandwich shop. This particular Subway sandwich shop stands at the entr... |
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19 Jun 07
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Wat Benchamabopit: The Grounds (This is the third in a short series of items about Wat Benchamabopit. If you would like to view the previous two items in this series please click on these links: 1, 2).
The grounds at Wat Benchamabopit are modest in size, but nonetheless are a... |
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17 Jun 07
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Wat Benchamabopit: The Cloisters and Courtyard Today’s first photo on Doodee’s Thailand shows part of the courtyard, temple exterior, and cloisters at Wat Benchamabopit. The cloisters surround the courtyard at the west side of the temple. You can click on the photo to enlarge it.
The cloister... |
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15 Jun 07
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Wat Benchamabopit I’ve visited most of the better-known temples in Bangkok, and a substantial number of the less famous temples here too. I’ve found all of them sufficiently interesting to be worthy of at least one visit, and many of them are worthy of several visi... |
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13 Jun 07
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A Handy Sign The sign featured in today’s entry on Doodee’s Thailand ought best to be placed in the category of “What exactly does that mean?” I invite you to take a look at this sign, shown in the photos below, and then I think that you’ll see what I mea... |
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11 Jun 07
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Most Serene Surin Province Having shaved, showered, and shared a bowl of noodles with Her@Home, we three (Mr Wit, Her@Home, and me) embarked on our journey to the monastery pictured below. You can click on the photo to enlarge it.
The purpose of our visit to this particular... |
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11 Jun 07
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Skylab, the School Bus We departed from the monastery and travelled for a few hundred metres back along the narrow, tarmacadammed lane. Then we turned off from the lane and on to a dirt road. Our destination was Khoon Yie’s home.
“Yie” is the Thai word for one’s grandm... |
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11 Jun 07
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Buddhist Lent Next Tuesday, the eleventh of July, is “Wunn Cow Pansar”, the first day of Buddhist Lent. For students of the Thai language, “Wunn” means day, “Cow” is the verb “to enter”, and “Pansar” means Rainy Season. So “Wunn Cow Pansar”... |
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11 Jun 07
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Snakes Alive! A funny thing happened to me as I was walking to the post office the other day. I was nonchalantly strolling along the pavement adjacent to the busy dual carriageway near to my home on the outskirts of Bangkok, and at the same time entertaining Her@Home... |
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11 Jun 07
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What Is She Holding in Her Hand? I know that a number of you are interested in Her@Home, and so I’ve featured her in the first picture on today’s blog. Yes, that’s Her@Home’s hand, and she’s holding in it a young Red-eared Terrapin. It looks terrified doesn’t it?
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11 Jun 07
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Turtle or Beetle? What “Rot”? Whilst returning to Bangkok recently we passed alongside the vehicle featured in today’s first photo. It was travelling along the dual carriageway near to Don Muang Airport, Bangkok as we overtook it. We overtook lots of our fellow motorists during th... |
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11 Jun 07
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Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit We bumped into one of our Thai friends the other day. She’s a lovely lady. She’s happy and jolly, and oozes warmth and personality. She’s a joy to be with.
We immediately struck up a conversation with her, in Thai, and I was almost able to keep u... |
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11 Jun 07
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"Hua Hin" I’m always intrigued by the name of the seaside resort “Hua Hin”. The first word of the name, “Hua” is the Thai word for “Head”. The second word of the name, “Hin” is the Thai word for “Stone” or “Rock”. Literal translati... |
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11 Jun 07
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MANU Just a few days ago Her@Home and I enjoyed a leisurely stroll along the Ploenchit Road. As we leapt across the ravines left by broken paving slabs and squeezed through the narrow gaps between the vendors’ stalls that blocked the pavement I kept Her@Ho... |
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11 Jun 07
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A Soi Cowboy Conversation A few evenings ago Her@Home and I were out walking. Our walk took us past the end of Soi Cowboy. As we passed Soi Cowboy I was reminded of a conversation that I’d almost enjoyed with a working lady in one of the bars there, during one of the mo... |
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11 Jun 07
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A Bad Cue-Man Blames His Tip I like to play pool. I have no real talent for the game, but that’s never discouraged me yet. And despite my lack of talent I am proud to reveal to you that for a brief period during my younger days I was referred to as, “The Fast Eddie Felto... |
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11 Jun 07
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A Most Misunderstood Word In the last entry on Doodee’s Thailand I told you a little of how I perceive the manner in which Thais view me and my fellow foreigners. Today I’d like to continue discussing the subject of Thai and Westerner inter-racial perceptions by telling y... |
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11 Jun 07
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A Right Royal Time Last Monday my friend Mr Wit the taxi driver (and yes, he is a humorous guy) telephoned me and asked, “Are you busy tomorrow?”
I’m always on my guard when anyone asks me such a question. I want to know what they have in mind before I answer. I a... |
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09 Jun 07
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Strolling in Isaan: Conclusion (This is the final entry in the series, “A Stroll Around an Isaan Village”. If you’d like to view all of the series’ entries together please click on this link).
I took the photo shown below as I made my return to Her@Home’s family home. You... |
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07 Jun 07
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Houses, Villages, and a Couple of Personal Observations I’d like start today’s entry on Doodee’s Thailand by showing you some photos of the houses that I passed during my recent stroll around an Isaan village. You can click on the photos to enlarge them.
Most of the houses that I saw wer... |
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06 Jun 07
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The Temple Archway, and a Friendly Motorcyclist Today’s photo on Doodee’s Thailand was taken during my recent stroll in an Isaan village (to see the previous entries about the people and things which I saw during this stroll please click on this link).
The photo shows the entrance to the vil... |
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05 Jun 07
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Buriram or Burst Last Sunday we embarked on our bi-monthly trip to Buriram Province. Buriram Province is situated in North East Thailand. The north eastern area of Thailand is known as Isaan.
Isaan is a fascinating area to visit. It has its own culture, its own unique... |
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05 Jun 07
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And Make It Snappy It was Monday, our first morning in Isaan, and we woke up early, happy, and hungry. We loaded the car in readiness for our onward journey to Surin, and then set off to look for somewhere good to eat. In Thailand there’s no shortage of good, value f... |
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