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An uninvited guest for breakfast
Roger Crutchley, Published on 28/04/2024
» Last Monday morning breakfast was abruptly interrupted when my dog on his daily sniffing patrol came charging into the living room and began barking agitatedly at the sofa on which I was sitting. Although the hound regularly enjoys a healthy bark in the garden, he knows the house rules for indoors… strictly no yelping. So this blatant breach of barking etiquette had me a little concerned.
2018: The rescue that gripped the world
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 30/12/2018
» It ended up as a truly inspiring feel-good story, but could so easily have been a heart-breaking tragedy. That was why the tale of the Wild Boars football team -- 12 young Thai boys and their coach trapped in a flooded cave system in Chiang Rai -- held the attention of the world for more than a fortnight.
Remember, a birdie always beats a bomb
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 02/04/2017
» It won't come as any surprise that US President Donald Trump, who frequently criticised his predecessor for spending too much time playing golf, has been a regular sight on the links since he came to power.
Feeling one’s way through the festive fog
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 20/12/2015
» Good morning! Well, I hope it is, although if you are anything like Crutch you are probably more likely to be scrambling for the pain-killers right now.
A new look, but did anybody tell the cabbies?
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 11/01/2015
» Returning to Suvarnabhumi airport from the Northeast last Sunday, I decided to try out the new-look taxi system with the impressive-sounding “automatic queue-card kiosks”, rather than my normal practice of sneaking up to the fourth floor and grabbing a taxi from outside the departure lounge.
Things that could have been better expressed
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 10/08/2014
» While PostScript has over the years taken occasional liberties with “Tinglish” on signs, menus and the like, a sobering fact is that we native speakers of English have never mastered our own language. So we are hardly in a position to poke fun at others. As is quite evident each week, Crutch is still grappling with the basics and there are millions of British people doing the same every day.