Pottinger

I smell a hub on the horizon....

He's a funny-looking little fella, it's true. He could do with some starch in that collar or, better still, a new shirt. But he makes a very creditable stab at Thai, and one mustn't be overly ad hominem these days.

The Thais do seem to be past masters at making their vehicles perform undreamed of contortions and acrobatics. I remember being in the Siam Society building on Asoke many years ago when there was an enormously loud crash outside. Naturally, being voyeurs almost to a man (and woman), there was a rush outside to see the spectacle. Someone had managed to land their car on its roof on the sidewalk immediately outside - independently it seemed, for there was no other stationary, damaged vehicle in sight.

And....they're off!

Excellent article on this ongoing fiasco just published by a certain Scottish journalist. Makes interesting reading.

I know those buses. They're the type with thick plastic seat coverings that you have to be peeled off at your destination. They make for a very uncomfortable and somewhat sweaty journey - that is, if you arrive intact at all after a fourteen-hour journey with a maniac ya ba specialist at the wheel. And it's just right for a further fourteen hours onward flight, masked up and in damp clothes.