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Postcard from Thailand Part II

23rd July 2025 Going Postal 2590 Comments

04-05 January We had left Heathrow on 2nd January, arriving in Bangkok in the afternoon of the 3rd – our first full day in Thailand would therefore be the 4th which just so happened to [more…]

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Postcard from Thailand Part I

16th July 2025 Going Postal 2372 Comments

Planning   การวางแผน Neither the wife or I have ever been to Thailand, and it was one of our ‘bucket list’ of countries we’d like to go to; a visit to which was more likely to [more…]

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The Death Railway, Part Five

1st May 2024 Going Postal 1992 Comments

David Lean’s 1957 film depicted the bridge as a significant timber structure located in the deep jungle, spanning a narrow river featuring rocks and rapids. This is of course a work of fiction and was [more…]

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The Death Railway, Part Four

24th April 2024 Going Postal 2209 Comments

Step forward to the present day; SWMBO and I have been visiting Thailand for many years and decided it was time to head out to the Death Railway as Grandad Humbug had been in Burma [more…]

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The Death Railway, Part Three

17th April 2024 Going Postal 1858 Comments

Railway Construction Initially, the railway construction schedule allowed reasonable working conditions to be imposed on the POWs who, at that time, formed the majority of the skilled workforce. This combined with the fact that the [more…]

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The Death Railway, Part Two

10th April 2024 Going Postal 1887 Comments

The preparatory work was completed by early September 1942 and construction began both in Burma and Thailand on the 16th of that month. Many of the Japanese engineers had attended British universities before heading back [more…]

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The Death Railway

3rd April 2024 Going Postal 1933 Comments

Most Puffins will have watched David Lean’s 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai which is based on a novel published five years previously by French author Pierre Boulle. Whilst both book and film [more…]

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Mum’s Eightieth Birthday

1st December 2021 Going Postal 3791 Comments

Some three months before Mum’s 80th my brother, Barry, and I got together to work out what we could organise for her. We came up with a number of ideas, amongst them were a party [more…]

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Postcard From Kanchanaburi

24th June 2021 Going Postal 3264 Comments

In the now forgotten days when human beings were still allowed to show their faces and set foot out of the house rather than get fat on furlough, soon to become Universal Basic Income followed [more…]

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