My superb table and uber comfy chairs are being delivered today. The room has air con and we are almost ready to launch.
Here's a flavour of what I have on offer so far;
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Board Games
Always loved games and now, with the discovery of Battlefield Bangkok, I now have a direct link to the world of games.
My superb table and uber comfy chairs are being delivered today. The room has air con and we are almost ready to launch.
Here's a flavour of what I have on offer so far;
My superb table and uber comfy chairs are being delivered today. The room has air con and we are almost ready to launch.
Here's a flavour of what I have on offer so far;
Game Room
We went out looking at furniture today. Grace ran around trying all the bed and chairs. Oi found a bed she likes and I found a really cool table and chairs for board games. I'm uber-excited and hopefully tomorrow we will go back with a big wad of cash and make some purchases. Luckily, we both like staying at home and are happy to invest cash into making our home as great as possible. Once we have the building work complete and have the outside tiled dining area complete with uber-great drinking table we will be able to have fun times outside.
More board games have been ordered from Bangkok.
More board games have been ordered from Bangkok.
Friday, June 6, 2014
Building Work
Saturday morning and the garden is full of workmen.
The rear of the garden is falling away as we are on the edge of the site. Thus, a retaining wall has to be erected. Funnily enough, retaining walls were the first diagram I drew when I started work at EHDC (East Hants Darts Club). So I know a little bit about them.
In addition to this, we will also extend the kitchen and create a roofed outside area with drinking table etc. And a roof over the balcony on the first floor. I plan to get an exercise bike as I keep getting bitten by dogs when I venture out on my bicycle.
All quite exciting really and Oi is getting mighty proud of her home, and Grace just skips about like a princess demanding olives and assorted snacks.
I bought Descent: Journeys in the Dark board game, mail order from a kind American chap in Bangkok who runs Battlefield Bangkok games shop. I have been play testing it ready for the launch of the Chumphon Winkle's Patch Chinese Board Games Club. The two air con units we hauled up from Hat Yai will finish off the prestigious Games Room. Oi has kindly agreed to me taking command of an entire room! I got the drill out and put up my Edward Hopper and Henri Rousseau pictures. I'll probably get a couple more made as they are cheap to produce. I have my eye on the Dark Assassin card as a possible picture. I already have the wonderful Carcassonne game, which was my carefully selected present to myself when we went to England three or four years ago. My cherished treasure, and Oi plays it online on the ipad every day, then there is Descent which brings back D&D style dungeon crawling, and then on order is Star Wars X-Wing minuatures game which gets top reviews for being super easy to play but incredibly fun. It means I get to collect stuff again which was such an exciting part of my youth - collecting stuff. Back then
I have finally voluntarily graduated to Pink Floyd as my music of choice. It just sits awesomely with whatever activity I am doing. This week I had a molar removed which is still horribly painful. Oi suggested I took a day off work which I did and spent a very pleasant day laminating cards from Descent. I am definitely venturing back into hobbies from my early teens and now I have been able to cancel all but one of my private classes which is a Godsend. The one i kept (an hour on Friday evening) is just to keep in touch with the kind people who run the language centre.
It definitely knackers me out at my day job; 22 teaching hours a week, Wed, Thurs, Fri 5 hours of class. Fortunately I am in total control of the classroom and now have a fellow gamer Thai assistant to help me. His name is Port.
I also hit the secretary at school with a bunch of requests; new whiteboard, various things fixed - all of which have been done. And I've been knocking out some pretty good lessons which have gone down well; plenty of speaking exercises and reading to sort out the kids who never got it sorted. I have also issued writing exercises and publicly scorned anyone with bad hand writing.
Oh Well. that's enogh for now.
The rear of the garden is falling away as we are on the edge of the site. Thus, a retaining wall has to be erected. Funnily enough, retaining walls were the first diagram I drew when I started work at EHDC (East Hants Darts Club). So I know a little bit about them.
In addition to this, we will also extend the kitchen and create a roofed outside area with drinking table etc. And a roof over the balcony on the first floor. I plan to get an exercise bike as I keep getting bitten by dogs when I venture out on my bicycle.
All quite exciting really and Oi is getting mighty proud of her home, and Grace just skips about like a princess demanding olives and assorted snacks.
I bought Descent: Journeys in the Dark board game, mail order from a kind American chap in Bangkok who runs Battlefield Bangkok games shop. I have been play testing it ready for the launch of the Chumphon Winkle's Patch Chinese Board Games Club. The two air con units we hauled up from Hat Yai will finish off the prestigious Games Room. Oi has kindly agreed to me taking command of an entire room! I got the drill out and put up my Edward Hopper and Henri Rousseau pictures. I'll probably get a couple more made as they are cheap to produce. I have my eye on the Dark Assassin card as a possible picture. I already have the wonderful Carcassonne game, which was my carefully selected present to myself when we went to England three or four years ago. My cherished treasure, and Oi plays it online on the ipad every day, then there is Descent which brings back D&D style dungeon crawling, and then on order is Star Wars X-Wing minuatures game which gets top reviews for being super easy to play but incredibly fun. It means I get to collect stuff again which was such an exciting part of my youth - collecting stuff. Back then
I have finally voluntarily graduated to Pink Floyd as my music of choice. It just sits awesomely with whatever activity I am doing. This week I had a molar removed which is still horribly painful. Oi suggested I took a day off work which I did and spent a very pleasant day laminating cards from Descent. I am definitely venturing back into hobbies from my early teens and now I have been able to cancel all but one of my private classes which is a Godsend. The one i kept (an hour on Friday evening) is just to keep in touch with the kind people who run the language centre.
It definitely knackers me out at my day job; 22 teaching hours a week, Wed, Thurs, Fri 5 hours of class. Fortunately I am in total control of the classroom and now have a fellow gamer Thai assistant to help me. His name is Port.
I also hit the secretary at school with a bunch of requests; new whiteboard, various things fixed - all of which have been done. And I've been knocking out some pretty good lessons which have gone down well; plenty of speaking exercises and reading to sort out the kids who never got it sorted. I have also issued writing exercises and publicly scorned anyone with bad hand writing.
Oh Well. that's enogh for now.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
10:47 Saturday night.
I rearranged my study/gaming room. I kind of claimed it and then decided today to put another table in it to create a harmonious 90 degree workspace. PC on one side, and then handy extra table immediately to my left for project work; right now laying out the first game in my newly acquired Descent game. Heroes, monsters and spell cards are neatly piled up waiting for a test run of this new game sent to me by a great American chap who runs Bangkok Games shop.
Tonight, I rushed down to Home Pro and bought a lamp for my study. It's fantastic, as you can probably predict. And just adds some dignity to the room. As if serious study goes on here, which of course, it does.
Having become rich, I now have ample of all my requirements. I bought the litre bottle of Gilbey's gin for the first time, 2 kilos of museli, 2 packs of coffee and a bottle of Famous Grouse whisky.
It was a good thing to do and probably soon to repeat. I have hit an efficiency mode. Suddenly in my life I am awake again, able to travel, buy anything, stop extra work and Party!!!
It's great!
I rearranged my study/gaming room. I kind of claimed it and then decided today to put another table in it to create a harmonious 90 degree workspace. PC on one side, and then handy extra table immediately to my left for project work; right now laying out the first game in my newly acquired Descent game. Heroes, monsters and spell cards are neatly piled up waiting for a test run of this new game sent to me by a great American chap who runs Bangkok Games shop.
Tonight, I rushed down to Home Pro and bought a lamp for my study. It's fantastic, as you can probably predict. And just adds some dignity to the room. As if serious study goes on here, which of course, it does.
Having become rich, I now have ample of all my requirements. I bought the litre bottle of Gilbey's gin for the first time, 2 kilos of museli, 2 packs of coffee and a bottle of Famous Grouse whisky.
It was a good thing to do and probably soon to repeat. I have hit an efficiency mode. Suddenly in my life I am awake again, able to travel, buy anything, stop extra work and Party!!!
It's great!
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
House
On Monday, Oi bought the house. For cash.
She took the day off work and met the various people, bankers, etc and headed for the Land Registry office where it was carried out. She heard woops and gasps as she declared she would buy it outright.
It's awesome for her and Grace, and me too. They will be okay now in this regard. There is still a ton of cash left over and we can both enjoy some shopping.
I just ordered a D&D style board game from Bangkok which arrived today. It's pretty exciting opening a box of floor tiles and plastic monsters. I want to get some paints and make them super cool. Then get some folks over to play over a few drinks.
A camera is also on the cards at some point.
School is going well, but I have been suggesting to my new boss that we reduce this academic learning of general knowledge, science and maths and do more conversation. It must have been some halfwit's idea...running before they can walk. I am sure in an international school it's a good idea, but most of these kids live on the farm. Easy and fun conversation will be better for them. Still, we shall see, and I have been enjoying the extensive research I have done of origins of the universe and planet Earth too. Melvin has been invaluable for this, though I am usually asleep before the show ends, or I become aware that I haven't taken anything in for the past ten minutes.
We are both concentrating on cutting back on intensive work from our schools and enjoying our precious family time together. Oi may decide to do something else as the fuckwit at her school drives her to dispair.
Grace is fine and raving about fairies most of the time. She is incredibly articulated and an absolute joy to us both. She is definitely a fully fledged third member of the family issuing demands and suggestions at all times.
I have painted the front gate with primer as we both prepare for extensive refurbishment at the house. We have to get the rear garden beefed up as it is falling away, being at the edge of the site. And we will have the kitchen doubled in size so we have plenty of room to cook and store all our pots and pans. We are going to base the decoration on the cool stuff at the Nana Beach Resort. Varnished bare cement finish and hardwood shelves. If it goes according to the iamge in my head it should be great.
We also popped in at a local plant shop and aim to purchase a veritable jungle to surround ourselves will and block out beastly neighbours. Actually, Sunnyview is a very pleasant place to live. And in Thialand that means a lot.
She took the day off work and met the various people, bankers, etc and headed for the Land Registry office where it was carried out. She heard woops and gasps as she declared she would buy it outright.
It's awesome for her and Grace, and me too. They will be okay now in this regard. There is still a ton of cash left over and we can both enjoy some shopping.
I just ordered a D&D style board game from Bangkok which arrived today. It's pretty exciting opening a box of floor tiles and plastic monsters. I want to get some paints and make them super cool. Then get some folks over to play over a few drinks.
A camera is also on the cards at some point.
School is going well, but I have been suggesting to my new boss that we reduce this academic learning of general knowledge, science and maths and do more conversation. It must have been some halfwit's idea...running before they can walk. I am sure in an international school it's a good idea, but most of these kids live on the farm. Easy and fun conversation will be better for them. Still, we shall see, and I have been enjoying the extensive research I have done of origins of the universe and planet Earth too. Melvin has been invaluable for this, though I am usually asleep before the show ends, or I become aware that I haven't taken anything in for the past ten minutes.
We are both concentrating on cutting back on intensive work from our schools and enjoying our precious family time together. Oi may decide to do something else as the fuckwit at her school drives her to dispair.
Grace is fine and raving about fairies most of the time. She is incredibly articulated and an absolute joy to us both. She is definitely a fully fledged third member of the family issuing demands and suggestions at all times.
I have painted the front gate with primer as we both prepare for extensive refurbishment at the house. We have to get the rear garden beefed up as it is falling away, being at the edge of the site. And we will have the kitchen doubled in size so we have plenty of room to cook and store all our pots and pans. We are going to base the decoration on the cool stuff at the Nana Beach Resort. Varnished bare cement finish and hardwood shelves. If it goes according to the iamge in my head it should be great.
We also popped in at a local plant shop and aim to purchase a veritable jungle to surround ourselves will and block out beastly neighbours. Actually, Sunnyview is a very pleasant place to live. And in Thialand that means a lot.
Friday, May 23, 2014
Rich
I have suddenly become rich, to a degree.
The sale of the house in Southsea went through and via SWIFT cash has been arriving in Thailand. A huge chunk to Oi, who will buy this house on Monday, coup permitting and a wee transfer to a new account I opened, which means I have a vast stack of cash to dip into as needs arise.
The coup kicked off last night, just as well as I had a couple of Singhas. No school today. Not that the fuckers bothered to inform their foreign staff.
I rushed over to Tescos and bought lots of yummy food like ham, peanut butter, cereal and coffee and chocolate and McVitie's Chocolate Digestives.
I spent the day sifting through PC games and managed to cut the lawn with a pair of shears Oi bought in Homepro. She is also experiencing shopping euphoreia.
Tonight, in embarassing overindulgence, I rode into town and picked up a litre of gin (cheapee Gilbeys, not Gordon's - just not worth the extra 400 baht) and a bottle of Famous Grouse - first time I've seen it in Chumpon. Then I got some beers. Don't worry the spirits will be supped slowly.
Meanwhile I have been trawling the Net for board game shops in Bangkok who may sell some rather appealing D&D style board games. They deliver, and I believe the chaps here in Chumpon may be up for an evening of board games with beers, so it's worth investigating. When Peter was here we had a cracking game of Carcassonne with 3 players. It was scary good fun. Even Peter was mildly blown away.
So Oi will buy the house very soon which is awesome for her and Grace. They will always have somewhere to call their own. I saw John Entwhistle say the other day that riches came too late. I kinda feel the same as I have no desire for anything except good food and a few nik naks. Still, it's all good and very fun.
Desperately into Warhammer Quest on the Ipad right now. Even contacting the company for future updates. PC is more problematic. Too many choices, though I still love Duel of Champions.
Music is great and very into the Who right now watching old concert footage and differene3t version of A Quick One While He's Away (the one one the Stone's Rock and Roll Circus).
Vikings has ended and I am in a bit of a void on TV watching, though I have been enjoying a very passive Grey's Anatomy, restarting at the first series.
The sale of the house in Southsea went through and via SWIFT cash has been arriving in Thailand. A huge chunk to Oi, who will buy this house on Monday, coup permitting and a wee transfer to a new account I opened, which means I have a vast stack of cash to dip into as needs arise.
The coup kicked off last night, just as well as I had a couple of Singhas. No school today. Not that the fuckers bothered to inform their foreign staff.
I rushed over to Tescos and bought lots of yummy food like ham, peanut butter, cereal and coffee and chocolate and McVitie's Chocolate Digestives.
I spent the day sifting through PC games and managed to cut the lawn with a pair of shears Oi bought in Homepro. She is also experiencing shopping euphoreia.
Tonight, in embarassing overindulgence, I rode into town and picked up a litre of gin (cheapee Gilbeys, not Gordon's - just not worth the extra 400 baht) and a bottle of Famous Grouse - first time I've seen it in Chumpon. Then I got some beers. Don't worry the spirits will be supped slowly.
Meanwhile I have been trawling the Net for board game shops in Bangkok who may sell some rather appealing D&D style board games. They deliver, and I believe the chaps here in Chumpon may be up for an evening of board games with beers, so it's worth investigating. When Peter was here we had a cracking game of Carcassonne with 3 players. It was scary good fun. Even Peter was mildly blown away.
So Oi will buy the house very soon which is awesome for her and Grace. They will always have somewhere to call their own. I saw John Entwhistle say the other day that riches came too late. I kinda feel the same as I have no desire for anything except good food and a few nik naks. Still, it's all good and very fun.
Desperately into Warhammer Quest on the Ipad right now. Even contacting the company for future updates. PC is more problematic. Too many choices, though I still love Duel of Champions.
Music is great and very into the Who right now watching old concert footage and differene3t version of A Quick One While He's Away (the one one the Stone's Rock and Roll Circus).
Vikings has ended and I am in a bit of a void on TV watching, though I have been enjoying a very passive Grey's Anatomy, restarting at the first series.
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