lifestyle Archives - Graham Lawrence

Luck

Graham Lawrence — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 04:09:21 +0000

Perpetual good or bad luck is something that seems to follow some people you meet on the traveler or expat circuit. It is not something all or even many possess, but a few seem to just be gifted or cursed with it. Bernard was not a lucky man. Maybe not as unlucky as British Steve, […]

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Gerry the Deminer

Graham Lawrence — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 04:31:05 +0000

Gerry had issues; Gerry was haunted. Neither were going to ever go away. What actually caused the issues or haunting would never ever be known by anyone except Gerry. It is the natural way of some things. I was in a bar, in Jomtien, but to be honest it does not really matter where that […]

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Cowboy

Graham Lawrence — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:33:15 +0000

Manchester Andy, now there is someone to remember from the Cowboy days. He had an art degree, two in fact. He was also a real practicing artist producing paintings and sculptures at a prodigious rate. The styles of these were quite conservative and maybe not to everyone’s taste. Not being an artist, I am far […]

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The Eggman Lives

Graham Lawrence — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:59:39 +0000

It was around seventeen or eighteen years ago that I first noticed him, this aging man. Quite exactly how old he was, was hard to tell as he had the start of a curved back and looked constantly at the floor with his bewhiskered jowls hanging from each side of his mouth. His hair was […]

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The Excitement of Life in the Time of Covid

Graham Lawrence — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 07:49:47 +0000

Mundanity becomes everything Graham Lawrence 22nd August 2021 And so, after around 18 months of this covid pandemic, things are really not getting any better sitting in a small apartment in Bangkok. Every wander to the supermarket or market to get food is just an exercise in walking past the bankrupt, boarded businesses, the increasing […]

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Wistful

Graham Lawrence — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 05:28:43 +0000

It has been some time since I went back to the Banglamphu area. It was the place I first stayed decades ago when I came to Thailand. Things change. Back in the day, Khao San was lined with mostly shop house guest houses renting rooms for less than a pound a night. There were a […]

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Moving Again

Graham Lawrence — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 07:15:13 +0000

Yes its that time for moving again. I have to move branches for work. From Korat to Bang Saen is not too far and Bang Saen is a town well known to me and my family as are the staff at work. So this time it should be a relatively easy move. However, working abroad […]

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Balance

Graham Lawrence — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 09:55:27 +0000

This short post on balance in life, really started as a seed in my mind a few years back after reading the palliative nurse’s article on regrets people have when dying. Every man the palliative nurse worked with regretted working too hard. That is stunning and it gets you thinking. What are the most important […]

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