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Always look on the bright side of life
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 05/01/2020
» We have just scraped through the Year of the Porkers and are hurtling into the Year of the Rat, which admittedly doesn't sound too promising.
Rodents are simply a master of taste
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 05/08/2018
» There was a news report last week about the arrest on the Cambodian border of a gentleman smuggling 800kgs of dead rats. Imagine that. There are plenty of ways to make money through smuggling, but bootlegging deceased rodents is not one that immediately springs to mind.
Not exactly a great sense of timing
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 30/04/2017
» A front-runner for this year's Unfortunate Timing Award has to be the Tourism Association of Thailand (TAT) proudly announcing a special Bangkok Street Food festival for June, apparently blissfully unaware of the ongoing campaign by city authorities to clear those pesky vendors from most of the Big Mango's streets.
Trying to find lots of things not to do
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 27/09/2015
» It appears one of Thailand’s finest annual traditions, the “transferred to an inactive post” season, is in full swing. Hardly a day goes by without someone being shunted out of harm’s way.
It could all be pretty amazing again
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 04/01/2015
» I trust everyone has survived the festive season in suitably salubrious fashion and is feeling as bloated and immobile as Crutch.
Smoke in your eyes and up your nose
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 01/06/2014
» Yesterday was World No Tobacco Day, so it seems to be an appropriate time to discuss the disagreeable weed which was introduced to civilisation in all his wisdom by Sir Walter Raleigh, or as Bob Newhart called him, “Nutty Walt”.