A writer, restaurateur and jungle mama blogging about life in Thailand
This morning, there is a giant penis on top of the wine cabinet. There have been many things on top of the wine cabinet over the years: reptilian, amphibious, feline, and memorably, avian, in nature. But this definitely takes the biscuit, as the first occasion something phallic been perched atop the cabernets and merlots. I [...]
So after a crazy week of out of season storms, flooding, mudslides and the like across southern Thailand, here on the island the sun has got his hat on and he’s coming out to play. It’s unbelievable how quickly everything goes from disaster zone to business as usual. A few days ago we were washing [...]
This is what we woke up to at 4.30am on Sunday morning. Loud shouts in rapid fire Thai called us from our beds and into the storm-drenched night. The river was rising fast amid the torrential rain. In seconds Shrimp was up and wading thigh high in the flood torrents retrieving our belongings which were [...]
Sunset, Westfield supermall, London Dawn 36 hours later on Songkhla Beach, Southern Thailand Returning to Thailand is always bittersweet. Saying goodbye to family in London always sad. But then there are dawns like this. Coming back to Jungle Town we are submerged in the damage and reconstruction after rainy season. And mourning the loss of [...]
After fifteen years under house arrest, Burma’s first lady of democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi walks free. The grace and beauty of the moment are both moving and momentous on a world scale to witness.
I woke up the other morning and heard Crab having a loud conversation outside my window. Poking my bleary-eyed self out of the window I was greeted by the sight of Crab weighing a large box using our kitchen scales. The box was a post office box, but something about her excited manner and the [...]
There’s been a new face hanging around the restaurant for a few days. She is a tiny young girl of about twelve, who looks like a puff of wind would sweep her away. She has a beautiful face and smiles huge crinkly-eyed smiles whenever I pass her. Being used to the ebb and flow of people [...]
The Killing Fields offer visitors a grim glimpse into the bloody, and fairly relative, history of Cambodia, and are a very real brush with the murderous past of the Khmer Rouge
The Full Moon Party is legendary around the world as one of the most hedonistic parties on the planet. I get asked the same questions repeatedly about attending the full moon party and how to survive the madness, so I’ve put together some advice (most of it’s just common sense) for those that are thinking [...]
I came down yesterday morning to find Shrimp, Crab and Golf all a twitter, two of golf’s teenage pals who had left with their family had returned, shacked up at the Karaoke cum brothel and begun what is sure to be an illustrious career of selling sex. This was shocking and twitter-inducing to the assembled [...]
Amazing dynamic artwork by Thai artist Kung Mana Tongmee, otherwise known as Shrimp. Kung's vibrant Asian art is part of a new wave of contemporary Asian art which is finding enormous popularity across … [Read More...]