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Nothing wrong with snoozing in Snoring
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 01/08/2021
» One of the first things a visitor to Thailand is asked is probably what town they come from back home. My response of Reading invariably brings blank looks, so I usually add "just west of London" which admittedly doesn't make things any clearer. It would be nice if I came from a place that sounded a trifle more intriguing, such as the wonderful Nempnett Thrubwell in Somerset or Booby Dingle in Herefordshire.
A chimp that became a space pioneer
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 31/01/2021
» Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first chimpanzee in space. Not a lot of people know that.
Let me hear those balalaikas ringing out
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 09/07/2017
» It's not often I can remember where I was four days ago, let alone four decades, but 40 years ago this week I was standing in a very damp Red Square in Moscow.
Beware those naughty days of the week
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 31/05/2015
» There was an item in the Bangkok Post on Wednesday featuring a sign attached to a tent that read in Thai, “Rawang sao” (beware of the pole). Below it, someone had helpfully written an English translation, or rather mistranslation, which read “Beware Saturday”.
Thailand celebrates its Groundhog Day
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 02/02/2014
» When the Thai authorities selected today for the ''Big Event'', one wonders if they were aware that Feb 2 is better known in the US as Groundhog Day, when what is basically a giant rodent emerges from its burrow and predicts the weather for the next few months. Following the success of the 1993 film by the same name, in which a day keeps repeating itself, the expression ''Groundhog Day'' has come to be understood as ''an unpleasant situation that continually repeats, or seems to''. As that seems to just about sum up the current state of play in Thailand, the election could not be held on a more appropriate day.