I’ve been working a lot today, mostly on my SEO site, but in the back of my mind has been my new take on the ‘hot or not’ thing. I won’t go into details just now, not until the site is ready for launch but it should be quite a little money earner.

So I put my SEO company site aside for a while and started looking for a nice, cheap (AKA free) and feature rich PHP script. I think I can throw this site together within a couple of days if I can find the right script.

After about… Continue reading →

Last Friday night (the night I stacked the CBR) I attended the opening of The Masons Arms in Thongsala, and what a shock it was.

The owner has created a complete copy of an English pub right here on the island and it looks very authentic. Even the garden has been landscaped to look like something straight out of the suburbs of Surrey and not like a piece of land cleared out of the jungle on a tropical island.

Koh Phangan has a fairly large number of bars but none of them are like this, the rumour is the owner… Continue reading →

One of the worries of living in Thailand for me, especially somewhere with so little infrastructure as Koh Phangan is what would happen if I was ill? It’s not like being in the UK where all you have to do is trundle off to the nearest hospital and have a chat with somebody who speaks the same language as you. Here it’s all very different.

So I was a little more worried than usual 4 nights ago when I finally crashed my motorcycle. I guess it’s been overdue for a few months now and a lesson I knew I would… Continue reading →

Several weeks ago I arranged to ship 4 tea chests full of my personal effects from the UK to Koh Phangan, as I will be living in Thailand full time from now on. Inside these boxes were two pretty valuable PC’s, a lot of my business equipment, clothes and the best part of my book collection (quite priceless to me, I could never replace them all).Firstly I was quoted for full insurance cover, everything seemed fine, I arranged for delivery and the day before the pickup was due I started to fill in the shipping form. I couldn’t find anywhere… Continue reading →

We have decided to open a small restaurant in our front garden, that may sound odd but it’s not, many people do this in Thailand.So Nuth and I were talking about what to do with the garden to make it more attractive, I suggested a large pond with a nice waterfall. So yesterday we went in search of a pond and a pond pump. I had figured we could get one of those fibreglass pond liners, dig a hole, fill it up, add some fish and off we go. How stupid of me!

Off we go to the plant nursery,… Continue reading →