The Legless Blog

Heading South again this week
I have to head back to the South of Thailand again this week, I have to pay for my new apartment there and also a good friend from Penang is due to come and stay with me there for a few days. My apartment in the South is just a five hours drive from Penang, so it is an easy trip for her. So I booked my train to Hat Yai yesterday and whilst I was in the Bangkok inner city area, I decided to call in at my local again for a couple of beers and I met someone there that I had not seen for 10 months, Tommi Jacks of 'Tommi and the Pestle Rock Band' and we had a good chat and a couple of beers together. So I had quite a pleasant evening again last night chatting and drinking with Tommi. Cheers for now The Legless Fool FBE - Socialising again for a change

Legless and Pickled again
With my extended trip to the South of Thailand and my multiple trips to Penang over the last few months, it has been a very long time since I was last in my local Bangkok British pub 'The Pickled Liver'. A problem caused by my recent frequent trips to Penang is that my passport had become full again, so yesterday I went to the British embassy in Bangkok to arrange for a new one. Whilst I was in the area I decided to call in at my local pub, say hello to the landlord and other people that I know in there and have a few beers sociably for a change. Of course everyone that I met in there was asking me how I was and where I had been for such a long time and I spent most of the night telling the story of my recent trip and being bought many beers. I had quite a good night socialising with everyone, not something that I am used to being the solitaire that I choose to be nowadays, but I quite enjoyed it and had a lot more beer than I am used to these days Cheers for now The Legless Fool FBE - Really legless and getting pickled

Drink Drink Drink - Mario Lanza
As I said in my last post, I am now very interested in You Tube. I spend a lot of my time now searching on there for music that I like and yesterday I found a classic. I found a very popular drinking song that I like, but even better, it is sung by someone who I consider had probably the best and most powerful male voice that I know of, Mario Lanza. I was so impressed by this track that I have embedded it on my Leglessfool website home page. The song fits in very well with the feel of my site, I love my beer anyway and I really do enjoy this classic drinking song . I have also embedded this song on this post below and you can click on the 'play' button on it to listen to it. I have saved many good music tracks on my You Tube account now and if anyone would like to view them then please click on this link: Legless fool's favourites on You Tube. Cheers for now The Legless Fool FBE - Drinking and singing his way along

You Tube and Tony Christie
Being back at my computer again after a long time away, I am spending all of my time on it now, well, apart from my couple of hours beer break each evening that is . I have been interested in You Tube lately, I have been searching on there for some songs that I haven't heard for a long time and I found them on there. In 1967 when I was still quite young, I used to work behind a bar in a United Services Club in the evenings and they used to have live musical entertainment on at the weekends, Singers, groups, etc. One of the acts that I really enjoyed was a young male singer from Yorkshire who I thought had an excellent voice and he was so popular at the club that we used to have him there fairly regularly. After the bar was closed and the customers left in the evening, all of the club bar staff and the entertainers used to relax in a social room and have a few drinks and a chat for a while and that is where I really got to know this singer, he was not just a good singer, but I liked him socially too and we got on quite well together. In 1968 I joined the RAF and I didn't get back home to the club very often, so I lost touch with this singer over the next few years. It wasn't until about four years later when I was with the RAF in Singapore that I heard about him again, he had made some records and I spotted them in a music shop there. Because he was a friend, over the next few years I bought every record/album that he brought out and I played them regularly. That was twenty five years ago now and I have lost them over the years, so that is why I started searching on You Tube for these songs. This singer made quite a name for himself in the early 1970s and he became very popular worldwide and he still is today, the name of this singer is Tony Christie. One of Tony's songs on You Tube that I really like is below, if you would like to listen to it just click on the 'Play' button below: Cheers for now The Legless Fool FBE - Old friend and fan of Tony Christie

Back in Bangkok and Back to being a recluse again
Having been away for almost two months, meeting new friends, finding a new love and travelling around, I am now back in Bangkok and I have to catch up on all of my internet SEO work, finish my E-book and update my websites. So I am now just stuck in my room here legless and alone working on my computer, basically just back to being a recluse in Thailand again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6h2aqSdCgo Cheers for now The Legless Fool FBE - Back into recluse mode

Back from my very extended trip
I arrived back at my Bangkok base a few days ago, but I have been very busy trying to organise my now very imminent move to the South of Thailand to get around to writing a new post on here for a while. My trip was very exhausting both physically and mentally with everything that I had to do. I have crossed the border between Thailand and Malaysia about six times during this period, with extended stays in Penang and my new home in the South. My new home in the South of Thailand I am very pleased with, it is a quiet and very relaxing coastal fishing town not very far from Hat Yai and is an ideal place for me to continue with my writing projects. The whole atmosphere of the place eased me into a very good writing frame of mind as soon as I first stayed there, but unfortunately my computer was still in Bangkok and I also had many urgent things to do in Penang to take advantage of it then. I shall be permanently moving to my new home at the end of this month, so you can expect a lot more from me on here then. 'Legless in Thailand' Cheers for now The Legless Fool FBE - Heading for his new home very soon

Off to a new adventure in the South
I have my train ticket now and I shall be leaving on the train later this afternoon for Hat Yai. This is the house hunting trip that I told you about in a previous post on here and on my arrival at Hat Yai on Friday morning I shall be heading to the recommended area to look for a new home there. Also a pressing new development in Penang necessitates me to make an unscheduled side trip to Penang this weekend. The problem with this is that crossing the border into Malaysia will terminate my existing Thai visa and I shall have to return to Thailand again with just a visa-on-entry which will only give me 15 days when I return. However, the urgency involved with my unscheduled side trip to Penang overshadows the Thai visa problems that it creates for me. It is much too complicated and involved to go into in detail on this blog, but I am sure that it will be well covered in the future by a separate true short story that I shall write, or by an update to my never ending story in Thailand 'Legless in Thailand'. Cheers for now The Legless Fool FBE - On a new adventure

Friskky Styles Penang is now in the SERPs
For most of the main tailoring keywords for Penang, my Malaysian friend's shop Friskky Styles website is now appearing on the first search results page of the Google and Ask search engines and consequently it is also appearing in the SERPs on the meta search engines that are fed by these. This has occurred much faster than even I expected and I am quite pleased with these results. For a new site to appear on the first search results page of major search engines for competitive keywords is a task that could take months or even years for most people, but the fact that I already have three well-established websites and I have linked from each of them to this site makes all of the difference, in this case it has only taken us nine days. I do not think that my friend's tailoring competitors in Penang will be very happy about this though. Cheers for now The Legless Fool FBE - In the tailoring business now

Time for a new logo now I think!
I was in one of my designer states of mind today and I decided that it was time to standardise the logo and icons across all of my websites. Up until now I have always designed a logo/icon that I think goes well with the page being displayed, but today I thought to myself that I have already labelled my whole group of websites/webpages as the 'Legless Empire', so I thought to myself "Why not design a logo that people will see and eventually recognise when they visit any of your legless empire sites or pages" and that is exactly what I did. You may have seen it on the top of the page when you visited this blog today and it is also on the URL bar as the icon there. I know that it is a fairly simple design, but I also know that it is simple designs that people remember easily, so it may just help! Cheers for now The Legless Fool FBE - The fool's new logo is born

The evil bitch is connecting again
I was surprised to receive an email a few days ago from the girl that made a mess of my life, the main character in 'Legless in Thailand' book, I just ignored it for a few days and even considered just deleting it without reading it, but today my curiosity got the better of me and I opened it. Inside it was a short message wishing me well and a link to a song on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9B2OMyCUrU after reading the email, listening to the song and sending a quite nasty reply back, I decided that this incident should be included on my website as a development in the Thai whore from hell story and so I created a new page on my website to include this update http://www.leglessfool.com/reedasia/Jezebel.htm So the never ending story continues! Cheers for now The Legless Fool FBE - Never ending story

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