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Glasto Rock Chick

Hello, I'm going offline for a while as I head off to Glastonbury , UK for the World's biggest and best Performing Arts Festival. Yes, Somehow your little Wren will be spending six nights unplugged, WOT no Wifi?  This five-star chick is off living in a tent and perhaps facing the biggest game of survivor since her days at Pony Club camp in the '70s. Quite how I went from trying to get tickets with the idea of glamping in a TiPi,  real beds, and the best linen, unlimited champagne, and fresh flowers and the like ...  to camping in a steward's off-site enclosure whilst volunteering for a Somerset charity (Who'd have thought they'd have me!), remains entirely down to a night at the movies... Bohemian Rock chick Wren here I come.  As a Glasto newbie I have already broken many of the rules: 1. O xfam is making second-hand fashion a Worthy Cause at Glastonbury Festival 2019. It’s a solution to the damage fast fashion is doing to our pla

Amazing Thailand holidays!

Sawasdee ka from Bangkok. How are you doing? All is good here in Thailand.  We have just had an amazing run of holidays.  No, not just me, silly but the whole Country.  We always have something to celebrate here living in the Land of Smiles ! Did you see the Global Economic Forum has suggested we should implement a four-day working week?   They say it will help save the planet and people will be happier? Well, Thailand has got this nailed. In the last two months we have had all these holidays: 6 Apr Sat Chakri Day 8 Apr Mon Chakri Day Holiday 13 Apr to 16 Apr Sat to Tue Songkran Festival 1 May Wed Labour Day * 6 May Mon Coronation of King Vajiralongkorn 9 May Thu Royal Ploughing Ceremony * 18 May Sat Visakha Bucha Day 20 May Mon Visakha Bucha Holiday 3 Jun Mon Her Majesty the Queen’s Birthday We're living the dream here with bountiful holidays. Anyone else wants to move to Thailand?! What do you think of the four-day working week