Welcome to Sunday Summary, the meme in which I attempt to summarize the week that came before. It has been a very wet week, culminating in most of Phuket Town being underwater as I write this. I spent most of my morning today wading through dirty water and my afternoon putting together and uploading a … Continue reading Sunday Summary #9
Phuket Philatelic Museum
The Great Phuket Town Flood of 2022
This is NOT the post I had planned for today, Sunday the 16th of October 2022. In Phuket Town, Sunday evenings are reserved for the popular Walking Street known locally as Lard Yai. I highly doubt that tonight's event will go ahead, however. It has been raining here for weeks. It is the Monsoon Season, … Continue reading The Great Phuket Town Flood of 2022
Daily Phuket #45: 26 April 2021 – Parking Lot Clock
This proved to be a real "three strikes" day as far as errands went. I had just three things I wanted to accomplish when I was finally able to venture outside and did not succeed at any of them. Other than early this morning, and just an hour or so ago, it has been pouring … Continue reading Daily Phuket #45: 26 April 2021 – Parking Lot Clock
Daily Phuket #31: 2 April 2021 – Farewell, Students
For the past three days, the students at my school have been taking final exams but today was the last hurrah for them with the morning seeing a distinct carnival atmosphere. This caused a very late start as the M3 students staged a symbolic walk-out; many have elected not to endure the difficult Maths and … Continue reading Daily Phuket #31: 2 April 2021 – Farewell, Students
The Week That Was #2019-11
It has been a fairly uneventful week-and-a-bit during which I have been going to work in a semi-holiday state of mind. April is definitely the slow period as far as education in Thailand is concerned as it is the summer vacation between school years. As the Thai New Year — Songkran — comes mid-month, most … Continue reading The Week That Was #2019-11
Phuket’s Stamp Museum
Phuket Town is fortunate to have a wide variety of museums and more on the way. Having been a stamp collector for much of my life, I’m very happy to live a pleasant ten-minute walk from one of Thailand’s eight philatelic museums. The other seven are located in Chiang Mai, Khon Kaen, Nakhon Ratchasima, Ubon … Continue reading Phuket’s Stamp Museum
Philatelic Pursuits: April 2015
Another month gone and this one went by very quickly indeed! I was on holiday for much of April due to the Thai New Year (Songkran) occurring mid-month and my language school students canceled most of their lessons in order to enjoy the nationwide bout of laziness. Even my local postman took a couple of … Continue reading Philatelic Pursuits: April 2015
Phuket’s Provincial Hall
Yesterday was a rather rainy holiday in Phuket – the 64th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit. A mid-afternoon break in the rain gave me the chance to take a short walk up the tree-lined Narisorn Road in northeastern Phuket Town. This is where most of the province’s government buildings are located and so is … Continue reading Phuket’s Provincial Hall
Owls “Coming Soon”
Today is the first day of issue for Thailand's new 4-stamps and souvenir sheet depicting owls. I love buying stamps on the day of release. Sometimes the clerk will let me use the old handstamp to add a Phuket postmark to the official first day cover. I dragged myself out of bed much earlier than … Continue reading Owls “Coming Soon”
Get Ready for a Thai Stamp Onslaught
The next two-and-a-half weeks will see a veritable avalanche of new issues emanating from the mail bags of Thai Post with no less than seven separate releases scheduled. For a country that usually sees between one and three stamp issues in any given month that's quite a change. But a pleasant one for a collector … Continue reading Get Ready for a Thai Stamp Onslaught
Mark Joseph Jochim 