Kicking up the dirt!
Pic of the Week – 30 September 2005 by Mike Kingdom-Hockings © 2002 All photographs are digitally watermarked – please don’t infringe copyright! Mike adds: “This…
British Expat Newsletter:
28 September 2005
This week: Shopping – how technology and business pressures are homogenising the experience of the weekly shop in the UK.
The Twenty Forty-Five
“Bored now, Prince Shuggie tossed the paperback onto the cheap plastic table. Like he cared that cheap plastic tables were banned. He’d inherited it from his grandfather. It was his legacy.” In a short story, Mike Clark presents his nightmare vision of a re-run of the “Forty-Five” Rebellion – three centuries on.
On the road to Autumn
A country track in autumn near Marnhull, Dorset.
British Expat Newsletter:
21 September 2005
This week: Marital and family status – surveys reveal that singles without kids are the biggest group living in poverty in Britain today.
Buying property in Thailand: culture shock!
“Before I could see any groundwork laid on the site, I was greeted with the sight of the builders’ ramshackle housing made out of tin and used wood. My wife explained that they had to live on-site to keep guard on the materials. When I noticed that they also built a small pen and brought chickens, seeing my baffled face, she said, ‘Well, they do have to eat, don’t they?'” Henry Jiminez finds setting up home in the Land of Smiles is a whole new experience!