Author: Tina

Mid October already – it’s hard to believe that it is over 6 months since I started with this project here. There have been a few changes over that time; not least Trish joining me here, and now there has been a noticeable change in the weather (haven’t seen any rain for about a week…

Finally starting to settle down here in Bangkok. It’s now almost 3 weeks since Trish and I arrived here together, and 2 weeks since we moved into the apartment. Our stuff arrived from the UK just over a week ago, and we are surprised how little of it there is – it didn’t make a…

August bank holiday Monday; so I guess the summer is finally over. What a strange year this has been! I am currently at home again, this time to close up the house and drag “wiffy” off back to Asia with me. I say drag because I get the distinct impression she is not exactly overjoyed…

Just had another week at home. This time I had 2 days up in London, to get my long term Visa for Thailand sorted out. Trish was with me for one day, just in case she needed to be there at the passport office. It turned out not to be necessary, but we had a…

The “3 weeks on – 1 week off” in Bangkok appears to be taking its toll. The last 2 times I have been home I got sick just after arrival (1st time was food poisoning – from a motorway sauasage roll in the UK would you believe; and the 2nd was a nose bleed –…

Almost 3 months into the assignment here in Bangkok now (get home 1 week in 4 though – till Trish joins me) and I finally got my first few hours out as a tourist today. I visited a Wat (temple), though it turned out not to be one of the usual tourist venues. I just…

Hot-desking it in Asia (written at the end of April)… I have been here in Bangkok for 4 days this trip, and I hope it’s true that April is the hottest month of the year in this country. It’s been 38 C outside today, though it’s cooled off to a balmy 31 at 8 pm.…

Spring ‘as sprung, the grass is riz etc Already things in the garden are beckoning, and yet we now have a real backlog of work in the house to get done before the visiting season starts. Hopefully, we will have a new dining room and upstairs bathhroom by the time we get to Easter, and…

I keep getting nagged for not doing this – boy I wish my day job would go away! I have been away a lot in the weeks, again. Not to Asia, as I thought, but to Sweden. We won the contract in Korea, which will be engineered out of Sweden, and I have been helping…

Happy New Year to everyone. I have just returned from Christmas in Canada and have started work again. Trish is still over there until the 13th of January, visiting Montreal at present, then Ottawa. We had a great time over there, though it went all too quickly, as usual. Spent lots of time with Christina…