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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.
It must be cold when hell freezes over
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 12/01/2014
» The Arctic-like conditions in much of the US this past week put into perspective somewhat the ''cold spell'' Thailand experienced over the festive season. When it gets cold in the US, it really gets cold.
Recalling those thrilling days of yesteryear
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 14/07/2013
» Ancient enough to have been brought up on the original Lone Ranger series on black and white television in the 1950s, I couldn't resist sneaking down to the cinema this week to see how they approach "those thrilling tales of yesteryear" a scary six decades later.
And now, a good hand for the losers
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 10/03/2013
» It seems only fair to pay tribute to the 24 candidates that didn't quite make it at last week's Big Mango election. Lest we forget, for months these people acted above and beyond the call of duty in the name of democracy, sweating their way around Bangkok's steamy streets, sporting those fixed grins so beloved by politicians.
Exams a necessary evil, or pure humbug?
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 17/06/2012
» Most people would probably agree that taking exams is an unpleasant experience. There can be few things worse than that horrible sinking feeling when you look at the question paper and your mind goes totally blank. You know you are doomed.
Hot and maybe a little bothered
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 06/05/2012
» It was Oscar Wilde who observed: ''conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative''. He might have had a point, but it means there have been a lot of unimaginative folk in Thailand lately. I can hardly recall a conversation in recent weeks without a reference to the heat. It definitely has been ''a bit on the warm side''.
With Dickens, it was the best of times
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 12/02/2012
» As a nipper in England, I often went for walks with my father. If rain was threatening he would say: ''We'd better take a 'gamp', and would pick up an umbrella in the doorway.''