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Extending the topic to binge watching box sets, I have just finished all three series of ‘The Fall’ on Sky/NOW, Starring Gillian Anderson and a then-unknown Jamie Doran, it is the story of a serial killer in Belfast set in 2012. The murders are not associated with the troubles but inevitably the paramilitaries  take a role.

Series1 is about the murders themselves, Series2 the capture of the suspect and the last is the final outcome.  There are many side plots throughout but none overshadow the main theme, serial murder.

I was not expecting a lot from ‘The Fall’ but I was completely wrong. For me it was outstanding and I would recommend it to those able to track it down.

I have seen posts by those, such as Krapow, about life in Belfast in the recent past and I would be interested on his take on this series.
 

Live at present has no winners, no losers just survivors. It is memories where we decide the result of the lottery.

Sorry! Too many bottles of Abbot Ale. First drink for three weeks, or half of Lent.

31 days only.  Overdosing on YouTube LOS vlogs trying to catch up with all the changes and, hopefully, improvements over the last 30 months.

dcfc   There was an article in the Telegraph over the weekend explaining that your Avatar was 'too good' to waste his talents with Newcastle United.  Was it a planted article by Rafa's connections? Possibly, but it does not help matters.  The Club and their fans are always more important than the current Owner or Manager.

Thank you for the invitation to visit le-pub. It is good to know that there is a well managed bar to visit.  I am not an LDOP but the Baht are there for quality and no rip off.  See you in November!

Moving slowly from beer,especially real ale, to Vodka usually with fresh orange juice.  Trying out all varieties.  The favourite  so far is Absolut or Russian Standard. Cutting down on the calories and the cost as I am now staying in as Autumn is here in the UK.

It will be interesting to me how it works out when I am in LOS for a month before Christmas

I am glad so many posters are naming Emirates,  I have chosen it for the first time for my trip in November because they now fly from Stansted for the first leg  to the Middle East.  This is only eight miles from home as opposed to the 40 plus miles to Heathrow.

44 minutes ago, DumbDucker said:

It's where the cheap Japanese hang out. Where the rich ones hang out you wouldn't be let in the door.

 

 

I agree.  But even the cheap Charlie Japanese office men are a step up from bums like me who finished off the night in the Thermae after Cowboy bars had shut down.

A book by Ted Powell, a former Cambridge academic and senior solicitor.  He has spent over five years researching and writing a book called 'King Edward VIII An American Life'.  Not just his affair and marriage to Mrs Simpson but his devotion to all things American. This love of woman and country would have had a profound effect on the United Kingdom if he had remained on the throne.

We British only really know the bare bones of the events which ended with a constitutional crisis and Edward's abdication.  But as the CBS Radio raconteur Paul Harvey might have said ' Here is the rest of the story!'  The sources for the book are largely contemporary reporting in American newspapers. Along with film stars such as Rudolph Valentino and baseball greats like Babe Ruth, the Prince of Wales was always headline news in the United States from 1924 onwards.  But the British press was censored from mentioning all but the very briefest details.  Certainly not any scandal!! Official Government papers concerning King Edward VIII are still state secrets.

Although the author was not to know it when he began his research this story of events 80 years ago and more has captured the very 'zeitgast' of 2018 with the romance and marriage of Prince Harry and his showgirl Meghan Markle.

I have no doubt at all that the rights to this book will be snapped up very quickly after it is published in the US this autumn. In a couple of years time it will be appearing on screen in one form or other.

On 9/12/2018 at 7:16 AM, Punter said:

I know this thread is about Pattaya, so sorry for this - the Thermae in Bangkok. I  mean the old Thermae and even the new Thermae they way it was last century. Those really were the day. I've had some of the best nights of my life in Bangkok but stopped going in 2005 and since then only had a quick visit in 2015. Everything is so different nowadays.

To intrude also, I agree with Punter the Thermae then had a special happy-go-lucky atmosphere before it became virtually a bar for rich Japanese.  Good Luck to those rich Japanese, no reason for only Farangs to have all the fun.  An area that did not change and was fun to the end was Washington Square.  So many memories, so many stories!.  Back to Pattaya

Good Day All

A visitor to LOS since 1985, the era of the Purple Persuader.  Pre HIV, pre internet, all information came by word of mouth and this probably led to many misunderstandings and myths.

First trip stayed at a guest house Soi 38 Sukhumvit which was still a dirt road with very little development beyond the Mui Thai Academy a hundred yards in . Happy Days.

I look forward to participating on this forum.