They’re playing our song!
Every couple has a song which means something special to them. Maybe it’s the song that was playing when they...
Eamonn Sadler
Usaha KecilKU: Empowering Stay-at-Home Mothers
Choosing between going back to work and looking after the family is a tough decision for mothers, but there are...
Almost the Last Laugh
Three British expats share a near-death experience on a trip to Kuala Lumpur… A few years ago I was hosting...
Health and Safety Indonesian-Style
A few years ago my father told me that he would like to come and visit me in Jakarta. Wonderful,...
Coincidental Christmas
As I write this I am sitting on a Cebu Pacific flight back from Manila, Philippines, having just attended...
He Who Laughs Last
In the winter of 1990, I was working in real estate in London with my business partner, Steve Collins. One...
Filling the Grill
In the early ‘90s, I was working in sales and marketing at the Sari Pan Pacific Hotel in Jakarta. Our...
A World of Tradition
I love traditions. Family traditions, national traditions, anything that is traditional in the true sense of the word. I guess...
Proof that Not Refusing to Save the Planet Might Not be a Bad Idea
Most people will be very surprised to learn that the world’s population of polar bears has shrunk by almost 60...
Catching a Flick
I like movies that are either funny or true, meaning I don’t generally see the point of letting precious minutes...
A Person, Another Person and a Third Person Walk into a Bar
Political correctness has become part of everyone’s lives over the last couple of decades. Everyone now needs to be very...
The Greatest Show on Earth
By the time you read this the biggest and oldest comedy festival in the world will be over (or very...
Fetch the Fava Beans and a Nice Chianti
Where I come from people never die. Before you rush to buy a house next to mine, I don’t mean...
Nothing New
When I went to Istanbul recently, I was eager to submit to the full tourist experience and immerse myself completely...
Real Heroes
I’ve never been a fan of those works of fiction that portray super muscular, superheroes performing amazing and noble feats...
When All About You are Losing Theirs
Near the end of World War II, an American B24 bomber was shot down by the Japanese over North Borneo,...
Incredible Java
Very few people are fully aware of the huge impact Java has had on the world as we know it...
Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Daze of Summer
The summer of 1976 was the hottest and driest in the UK since records began, with the months of June,...
The Great North-South Divide
I will not mention the name of the city in the north of England where I chose to go in...
The Old Hands
There is always kudos in the amount of time you have been doing something, a kind of “seniority of time”,...
OMG Skool is Soooo Yesterday!
These dayz edukashun trewly is a compleet waist of time. Don’t need English anymore cz we alwz abbreviate and every1...