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Well, it all began with a lady in a bikini
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 07/10/2012
» It's not often I can recall my movements of five days ago, let alone five decades, but I do know that 50 years ago this week, I was standing in a long queue on a miserable wet night in my home town of Reading. The reason for this odd behaviour was the opening of the very first Bond film, Dr No, which was showing at the less than glamorous Reading Odeon.
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'Ginger Pride' marchers paint the town red
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 18/08/2013
» Growing up with a mop of ginger hair, I was intrigued to see that Edinburgh last week hosted an inaugural "Ginger Pride" parade, a protest against ''gingerism'', the perceived prejudice or discrimination against people with natural red, or more likely, ginger hair.
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I see a white plane and I want to paint it black
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 22/09/2013
» Last December this column carried an item featuring ''omnishambles'', named by the Oxford English Dictionary as the 2012 ''word of the year''. The word is defined as: ''A situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterised by a string of blunders and miscalculations.''
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All you need is love ... and a sense of the absurd
Roger Crutchley, Published on 16/02/2014
» In Amazing Thailand the silly season is never far away and it tends to get particularly silly at this time of the year, courtesy of Valentine's Day. We've had the usual underwater weddings in Trang, tying the knot aboard elephants in Chiang Mai and, no doubt, couples getting married while dangling upside down on a bungee jump.
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Wish you were here, wherever it might be
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 02/11/2014
» I enjoyed the tale in the Post this week of the young Japanese tourist who for years had set his heart on visiting Myawaddy, the Myanmar border town opposite Mae Sot in Tak province.
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Fond memories of Brazil's coffee culture
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 07/08/2016
» With the Rio Olympics finally under way, I can't get out of my head the old Frank Sinatra song that starts: "Way down among Brazilians/Coffee beans grow by the billions …" It was entitled The Coffee Song and a big hit when I was a kid back in the Stone Age. In fact, that song just about summed up my knowledge of Brazil in those days.
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From train whistles to monkey chatter
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 08/01/2017
» In the final hours of New Year's Eve, I was sitting with my wife on the porch of our abode in the middle of Nakhon Nowhere.
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A soggy serving of mush to start the day
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 23/04/2017
» Most important news of the week is that the Chinese have given the thumbs down to a revered English breakfast staple ... Weetabix. The Chinese owner of Weetabix has sold the cereal company to an American firm after four years of failing to convince the domestic market of its virtues. It seems Chinese consumers still prefer the traditional dim sum (steamed buns) and rice porridge for their morning repast rather than the cereal The Guardian newspaper splendidly called "a gloriously bland, comforting, soggy serving of mush".
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The monk, the Kama Sutra and the 8.29
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 23/07/2017
» In PostScript two weeks ago I alluded to having a brief encounter with Smirnoff vodka during a visit to Moscow in 1977. Alert readers quickly pointed out that Smirnoff was only produced in the West at that time and the vodka I indulged in was most likely Stolichnaya, better known as "Stoli". I stand corrected, but whatever the name of the brand, it still gave me a horrendous headache.
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When paradise is just 10 minutes away
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 06/08/2017
» Roughly once a week, I have the pleasure of asking a taxi driver to transport me to paradise, or to get the pronunciation right, "paradye". And within 10 minutes we have arrived.
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