We are in Madagascar to visit the UWS project to build schools and provide education to some of the world’s poorest children. We started discussing this in 2020 during Covid while I was still a trustee (nine years!) of UWS. Covid obviously had a big impact on our plans and indeed Madagascar as you will see.
The reclining Buddha
Five days in Bangkok leave me breathless, yet full of energy! We are here to meet up with Dr Fi and her family, and also to catch up with another old uni chum, Patrick Brooks, who has been living a Somerset Maugham-type of existence for the past 30 years or so (actually an ex-dip and now consulting for the EU, trying to teach them diplomacy – the EU that is, rather than the Vietnamese or the Thais, who seem perfectly good at people skills if you ask me). Continue reading
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