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Fourth of July From the thirteenth of September, 2004 to the fourth of July, 2005, we slept on my mother-in-law’s floor in the small, rice-growing village where we live in northern Thailand, while we were waiting for our own house to be completed. However, after a party at a friend’s that finished after midnight on …
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August 2017 This is the month I have tried to take off every year since I left school. August falls in the school summer holidays in the UK. When my father remarried, it was my sister’s birthday on the first, my dog’s on the fourth, my brother’s on the seventh, mine on the fourteenth, my real mother’s …
My wife, Neem, had her Fiftieth Birthday Party on the beach in Fuengirola, on the Costa del Sol. It was a day to be remembered!
August, My Favourite Month. I don’t have any specific subject to talk about today, so this piece will be a ramble, as I sit in my favourite local shop enjoying a beer. August has always been my favourite month – my birthday and school holidays probably started that off. In fact, when my mother was …
The Day After The day after my birthday that is. Everywhere is very quiet, and everyone, except a trader in a van selling watermelons. She’s beeping the horn every few seconds and it’s loud. I haven’t seen her yet, but I’ve been able to hear her for ten minutes. I don’t have to see her, …
My Birthday It’s the fourteenth of August again – the day Japan ended the Second World War and my birthday, although they didn’t occur in the same year. I came along nine years after the war. No, party this year though for me. I’m not keen on them, but my wife has insisted on having …
My Wife’s Birthday Today is my wife’s birthday. People started to arrive at nine am, but that was only to help cook the two pigs’ heads she had promised Buddha the day before and prepare food for tonight. The monks must eat their last meal of the day before noon, so they were delivered …
