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British expat amputee in Thailand
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Asian Diaries - My life in times in Asia - updated regularly
My new book 'Legless in Thailand' is available here
My new legless HQ group of websites is just a consolidation of many websites that I have been operating for some time and now they have just been put together on one server. I have been trying to get everything working quickly on the new server, but I am still finding links, pages and folder references that are not quite correct yet, I wish that they could correct themselves because I think that it will take me quite a long time to find all of the problems. I shall not be updating this blog as often as my legless blog, this blog is mainly to announce to people about any new changes to my website and anything else that I consider important to talk to people about. I shall be adding music to my website later, because music is quite important for me, especially with my Asian diaries, because music brings back memories of the good times before. The plans for my website are quite flexible and I shall just be adding things in time as I go along. The only fixed section on my site is the Reed in Asia Asian Diaries, this I shall be updating daily and even updating it daily, it will still take me years to complete, writing about all of my experiences in Asia over 25 years in all. I shall have to organise a party when it is finally completed. 
You can email me at: bloghq@leglessinthailand.com
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I am in Bangkok now, but I do not have an internet connection yet. True Telecoms in Bangkok are working on it now and they have promised me a 512MHz ADSL line within the next week, so hopefully I shall be getting my site back to normal again within the next two weeks. I am sorry for any inconvenience that this has caused to any of you, I just ask that you can be patient for a little while longer until I can get everything established agin properly.
Cheers for now 
The legless fool and Legless HQ getting reestablished 
For those of you who have been reading my legless blog, then you will already know that I am moving to Bangkok, but for other people that are reading this, then I have to explain that I am moving from Nakhon Sawan province to Bangkok tomorrow, consequently my website has suffered for this a little and will continue to do so until my base has been firmly established in Bangkok and I have a permanent internet connection again. So it will be a while before I shall be adding to my Asian Diaries again, but I shall keep you informed on here.
Cheers for now
The legless fool and Legless HQ on the move
I just returned from my latest visa trip to Laos two days ago and I have spent the time since then writing the story about this latest trip. I finally uploaded it to the website today and it is now the latest addition to the Legless fool's HQ website. To read this new story then just click on Legless in Vientiane Laos II here
Cheers for now
The legless fool back at Legless HQ online
I have been busy for quite a few days now designing a new icon for the legless fool and I finally came up with one as you can see above. I have given the icon figure a name 'Solo' and I have had to include him on many of my webpages so that people will get accustomed to relating him to me and my legless websites, I still have all of the pages in my Asian Diaries to modify yet and that is going to take me a very long time because there are more than fifty pages now.
Because of this extra work that I am doing, my Asian diaries have suffered a little, I am not creating the pages as quickly as before, so I would appreciate your patience until I can get my websites completely modified.
Cheers for now
The legless fool at Legless HQ online
I was working on one of my webpages yesterday that explains about how I built up my internet domains when I suddenly realised, that now I am using Legless Fool as my internet / web name, I should really back it up with a domain of a similar name to stop anyone else trying to cash in on this name as they already are doing with the name of my book 'Legless in Thailand' and my writing name 'John McMiken'. So I made the decision to register the domain name of www.leglessfool.com yesterday which I did successfully, to protect myself against someone else registering it. As this new domain just appertains to me personally as the owner of this name now, I have only configured this new domain to redirect people to my Legless group of websites, because I cannot justify the expense of putting this new domain on a server and building a new website for it at this time, maybe later! I own many domain names now and many of them are used just to redirect traffic to my existing websites. I have written a page on my legless HQ website explaining about all of this, so I shall not write too much about it on this post today, for anyone that is interested, then you can take a look at my Legless Websites Group of Domains page.
Cheers for now
The legless fool at Legless HQ online
Today I wrote a new webpage for my Reed in Asia section of my Legless HQ website, this page is something that I have had planned for a very long time, but I have just never got around to writing it before. The page is about the person that caused me to be in the situation that I find myself in today and if I had never met her, I probably would still have two legs today too, because I only had the accident in which I lost my leg when I was carrying out her wishes. The full story about my relationship with this person can be found in my 'Legless in Thailand' book and the only reason that I created the new webpage today about this person, is out of pure spite and hatred of what she did to me without a second thought before.
Just as with the writing of my book, making this webpage today has actually helped me, by releasing some of the tensions caused by the hatred of this person that I have been carrying around with me for many years now. I have actually put photos of this girl on the webpage, but what I haven't done on there is state her real name and actual location now. If anyone would like to see this webpage and the photos of this person then just click on this link: The Thai whore from hell and see and read about the person that completely ruined my life before. Because I have been concentrating on this today, I have slipped behind one day with my Asian Diaries but I shall be back into my diaries again tomorrow.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online
I did not want to copy any of my legless blog on this blog, but sometimes it is difficult, when the only thing that you have to say is applicable to both blogs, so today I am making an exception to my own rule. The post below is what I put on my legless blog last night, but it does concern legless HQ:
"Writing the page for my Asian Diaries today, I have been writing about an event that happened to me 24 years ago in Thailand. I went for my first day out driving in Thailand and I went to Kanchanaburi, where the famous bridge over the river Kwai is situated. I went with the girl that was then staying with me and I had a very good day out. It is a day that is easy for me to remember, because it was the day that changed my mind about my future and ultimately led to where I am today, I shall not say any more about it on here because I do not want to detract from the Asian Diary entry itself. I will say though, that as I have told you before, I have now put music on some of the pages in the diaries and the music relates to that particular time in my life. The music for this day in the diary is 'Magic' sung by Olivia Newton-John and when I hear that song even these days, I always remember that day before and what I was doing when this song was playing."
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online
I have been quiet on here for a while because there is nothing new happening on the website, only my daily upload of my Asian diaries and I don't want to bore anyone by talking about them everyday. I shall try and make some progress on improving my website, but I just don't seem to have the time at the moment. Again talking about my Asian diaries I have integrated some music on some of the pages now, music has always played an important role in my life and I remember certain periods of my life through the music that related to that time, so I think that this is important for the diaries to try to recreate the atmosphere at that time.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online in Thailand
As those of you who are already subscribed to my Asian Diaries RSS can see, I am now managing to get a page a day onto the site again now. Tomorrow's page is going to take me a little time to write though, the diaries have now reached a point were the events that take place over the next few days eventually cause me to make a major decision that would change my life and lifestyle completely in the future. I am not going to say more than that on this blog, but if you are interested then read my Asian diaries over the next few days.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online in Thailand
For the first time in over two weeks now, I have just written and uploaded a new page to my Asian diaries today. If you are subscribed to the RSS, then you will already be aware of this. I am just about getting over my recent very emotional trip to Koh Lanta and I hope that I can soon get back to producing a page a day for my Asian diaries again.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online in Thailand
I have just uploaded the story about my recent trip to Penang and an unplanned side trip to Koh Lanta, to the legless HQ website and it can be seen by clicking on the page link here LINK or by going to the index page in the Reed in Asia section of the legless HQ website.
I shall try to get back to creating new entries to the Asian Diaries section again within the next few days, when I am a little more settled after my recent very emotional trip.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online in Thailand
There has been no post to this blog or any of my other blogs for quite a long time now, this has been due to my recent trip to Penang to renew my Thai visa. A trip that usually takes me less than one week has ended up taking me almost two weeks, mainly due to events beyond my control and a spontaneous decision that I made to re-visit a very painful part of my life, which is also the main reason why I refer to my book as 'The autobiography of a fool'.
To talk about this trip fully would take a lot of writing and although I do want to write about it whilst it is fresh in my mind, I do not think that it would be practical to write it as a post on this blog. So what I have decided to do is just make this post a normal size and write about my recent trip as a new story in the 'Ex Post Facto true short stories' section of my legless HQ website, I shall then link to the story itself in a future post on this blog.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ back online in Thailand
Writing my pages for my Asian diaries I just realised that at this point in the diaries, that I am really giving in-depth background to my book Legless in Thailand my autobiography. When I first wrote my book, I just wrote about incidents and situations that occured at that time and I only covered the background a little, now what these diaries are doing is giving a real in-depth background to my story and given time, the diaries will reach the point at where my book started and because the diaries are a virtual day by day account of my life before, they will eventually give a deeper aspect to the story in my book too, but that is a long way off yet. At the period being written about now in my Asian diaries, there are 15 more years to cover yet before they reach the point at which my book starts.
Maybe at some point in the future the whole of my Asian Diaries I may publish as a second book probably entitled something like: 'Legless in Thailand - The Full Story' but that is a long way in the future yet.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online in Thailand
I am now limited on my connection to the internet, due to storms here in Thailand at the moment and I have to keep disconnecting my modem from the telephone line to prevent losing another modem to the lightning. On the legless HQ website, the only changes taking place are just the daily update to my Asian diaries, I have now just started writing about a very important period in my life in Asia and particularly today's page, Asia 28, one of the relatively minor events that takes place on this page has life-changing consequencies for me in the future.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online in Thailand
It has been a long time since my last post on here, mainly because I have been working on my Asian Diaries again. Having just started the Thailand section of these diaries now, I have a lot of thinking to do, this period was about twenty four years ago and trying to recall all of the details from my memory can be quite difficult at times, so it is taking up a lot of my time now. I am still trying to keep my original legless blog updated, but I am afraid that this blog is suffering a little for it.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online in Thailand
As I promised in my last post, I have now finally completed an RSS feed for my Reed in Asia Asian Diaries, it is available on the Reed in Asia site and is also now available on this blog above. I hope that this is convenient for the people who wish to view my Asian Diaries. I shall try and keep up producing a new page each day.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online in Thailand
Because I am now writing virtually a page per day for my Reed in Asia Asian Diaries, I have come to the conclusion that, rather than me making an entry on here each time I upload a new page, I think that it would be much more convenient for everyone if I put an RSS feed connected to the Asian diaries, then people can see automatically on their browser when a new page is available if they are subscribed to the RSS feed. It will take me a little while to put the feed together, but I think that it would be much more worthwhile than making an entry in this blog each time, because this blog is not only associated with the Asian diaries, the purpose of this blog is to inform people of all of the new developments to the whole Legless HQ group of websites.
I shall let you know on here when the RSS is ready and I shall put a button on this page too, to allow people to link to the new Asian diaries RSS feed when it is available.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online in Thailand
Today I have uploaded the first page of the Thailand section of my Reed in Asia Asian Diariesthis section is probably going to be the largest section of all of my Asian diaries. I have started with the very first time that I ever came to Thailand and the reason for my visit, which was to carry out a major project for the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF). I shall be writing about my initial impressions and subsequent events that occurred, because this first visit to Thailand was going to change my life completely, unknown to me at the time. The project only lasted about six months, but that first six months was enough to leave a lasting impression on me and certain events that happened during that time would force me to make a major decision for my future. I shall not say any more on this blog about the story because I do not want to detract from the diaries themselves. If you would like to start reading this diary then please click on the Reed in Asia link above.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online in Thailand
I have just completed and uploaded the last page to the RAF / Singapore section of my Reed in Asia Asian Diaries so tomorrow I shall be starting on the Thailand section of the diaries and this section is going to be a very long one and will probably keep me busy for a long time writing a page each day.
Working on the Asian diaries each day, I have not really had time to develop the rest of my website as I had intended yet and starting on the Thailand section now is going to keep me very busy, so I cannot say when I will be able to develop the rest of the site, but I shall keep you informed on here when I can.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online
I am writing my Reed in Asia, Asian Diaries each day now and I am managing to get a page out each day, over the last two days I have uploaded two more pages to the website. These pages are about when I was working in the RAF in Singapore at RAF Tengah, I had just got married before being posted to Singapore and I had to get used to my new married life and my new home in Singapore together, both being a new experience for me.
I have some ideas for new pages and sections for the Reed in Asia zone of this website now and I shall discuss them on this blog later.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online
Still working on my Reed in Asia, Asia Diaries each day, I am not only remembering the past but I am also reliving it and trying to analyse it. As I am writing the stories of my past life each day and looking at the good times that I had before, I am now questioning myself and asking "When did it start to go wrong and were you the only one at fault?", "What were you thinking about later, what was driving you and what were you looking for in a relationship?" These questions and many more are now floating around inside my head, trying to self-analyse myself and trying to determine what made me do things that eventually turned, what now in reflection looks like a perfect relationship, into a disaster for both of us many years later, because I was the one that finally caused the split-up of the relationship.
Looking back again now, I am trying to understand what I was thinking about or looking for in a relationship before, that made me want to try and find another partner, because what we had together then, is exactly what I am searching for in vain today and there is no way now to turn back the clock or return to what I once rejected a long time ago.
Well back now to the only partner that I find that I feel comfortable with now, my beer!
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online
Now working on my Reed in Asia, Asia Diaries each day, I find that as I am writing each page from memory, I not only remember exactly what happened at that time, but the emotions that I felt at that time start to flow through me again too. These are very good emotions from my life a long time ago, because in comparison to what my life is like now and has been for many years now, they were truly wonderful times for me. So I look forward to and enjoy writing these diaries each day now, it is a means of escape for me from the dismal reality of my life at the moment and I slip back in time to the period of my life that I am currently writing about and virtually re-live it again.
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online
Now that my new modem is installed and operating, I can get back into my usual routine again. At the moment I am working on the Reed in Asia section of my websites HQ and I am trying to put a new page on there each day. Today I have just completed and uploaded Asia7.htm 'Settling in the tropics' and hopefully I can do this everyday now that I have a working modem again
Cheers for now
Legless HQ online
I had just finished another page for my Reed in Asia site yesterday and I was going to connect to the internet and upload it, when there was a loud crack from inside my computer and it just shut down. A couple of seconds later there was an almighty crash of thunder and I thought that the electric had shut down from a lightning strike, but looking around me the electric fan was still working and nothing else seemed to be affected, just my computer had shutdown.
I was thankful that I had saved everything before it shutdown, so I thought "Okay I shall just restart it, connect to the internet and upload my files now". I restarted the computer okay and then tried to connect to the internet, but I kept getting the error message 'telephone number engaged', I tried many times with the same result, so then I went to the telephone and manually dialled the same number and I got the internet 'handshake sound', so I went back to my computer and tried again and I got 'telephone number engaged'. I then knew that I had a problem with my modem, it had obviously been fried by the lightning strike. Living in the countryside, I had to get a lift to the nearest town and went to the only computer shop in town, only to find out that they were closed for the day and that they would be open again today, so no internet yesterday.
I went to the computer shop again today and managed to get a modem, the last one in stock, the guy there told me that this happens a lot around here. I bought the modem, returned home and replaced the modem in my computer and I had my internet connection back again five minutes later. so my new resolution now is 'any sign of a storm nearby, take the telephone line out of the modem'.
Cheers for now
Legless back online in Thailand
Working again today on my 'Reed in Asia' site, I managed to complete yet another page and uploaded it to my website. The story on today's page is about discovering Singapore a little bit more, the title of the page today is Singapore our new home now. if you would like to view this new page then please click here.
Nothing else of interest really to talk about today, I still have my personal ongoing problems and trying to come up with a workable idea of how to fix them, but nothing so far that seems to fit the bill. I am now just looking forward to next month when I can go to Penang again and visit all my friends there, maybe I can talk to them about it and someone can come up with an idea.
Cheers for now
Legless fool in Thailand, Asia
Working again today on my 'Reed in Asia' site, I managed to complete another page and uploaded it to my website. The story on today's page is about first impressions and trying to get used to living in Singapore, the title of the page is Singapore acclimatisation. if you would like to see this page then please click here.
Also, working on my usual SEO for my websites today, I try to understand exactly what the search engines are doing and try my best to analyse their results, but Yahoo in the past couple of weeks has got me absolutely stumped. The webpages or sites of mine that come up on the first page and sometimes in first position, on other search engine's results, Yahoo now has me way down in their results pages and these are pages of mine that Yahoo have shown on the first results page before for the same keywords. 
Today I was putting in the keywords for my legless book again and it was coming up very high on the first results pages for many keywords with other search engines, but not with Yahoo. Then I put in the descriptive comment of mine 'Legless fool' and my book came up number one on almost all of the search engine's results and this time I was even number one on Yahoo too. So I have come to the conclusion that Yahoo just has me categorised as a legless fool. 
Cheers for now
Legless fool in Thailand, Asia
No post again yesterday because I was again working on a new page (asia3.htm) for the Reed in Asia section of the legless HQ website. This concerns my first trip to SE Asia and an unusual incident on the aircraft that took me there. At that time I was still serving in the RAF and I had just been posted to RAF Tengah in Singapore. This was about thirty five years ago and Singapore was still quite a pleasant place to visit and live in then. I spent three years living in Singapore and I have quite a lot to talk about, so this part of the story will probably take me about one more week to complete properly. The completed page about the eventful journey to Singapore was completed and uploaded yesterday, so if anyone would like to take a look at it then please click here.
Cheers for now
Reed legless in Asia again
After a lot of work today, I finally completed and uploaded a second page to the Reed in Asia section of my new HQ website. Like the first page that I wrote, which is mainly about Bahrain, the second page is also set in a period of time when I was still serving in the RAF and it covers the build up to my first posting and subsequent trip to South East Asia and the major personal events that were happening in my life at that time. Writing about this period in my life is sometimes quite difficult for me, because it is the first time that I have thought about this period for many years and personal emotions from that time start flowing through me, but as usual these days, more beer helps me to cope with this quite well 
Cheers for now
Reed legless in Asia again
No blog post again yesterday, because I am still working on the new legless HQ websites. Yesterday I was working on the Reed in Asia section of the HQ website, this part is basically about an overall view of my life in different countries in Asia, where I have lived and worked before. Yesterday, I started with my first introduction to an Asian country and why I went there. I shall be adding to this Reed in Asia section with time and writing many of my experiences in this part of the world on there. It is still being worked on at the moment, but if anyone would like to see it now http://reedasia.leglesshq.com
Well, back to my website work now and also to play with the usual scams that I have going at the moment, I have 65 million dollars due to be transferred to me this week, so party time!
Cheers for now
Reed legless in Asia
The scam that I told you about yesterday I found quite funny and as usual I have received some more today. For some reason I must look like a good target to these scammers, but I would have thought by now that I would have been on a blacklist somewhere, because they never get anything from me. I just enjoy letting them think that I am one of their usual victims and I also enjoy imagining them squirm when they don't get what they want from me and change their tactics trying to find a way to get some money from me. I am keeping a record of all of these scams, their MOs, scenarios and tricks that they use, because I have plans to write a future book about them. Playing with these scammers also helps to distract me from my own pressing, personal problems, so these scams are a little useful for me.
Cheers for now
The crazy legless scam player in Thailand
I was awakened today by my mobile phone ringing, this is very unusual for me, because usually nobody ever phones me. The person on the other end of the line said that he was a diplomatic courier and that he was at Bangkok's Suwannabhumi airport and that he had problems at customs. My brain then started to go over some of the scam games that I have on the go at the moment and soon I realised which one this was supposed to be. I have had this scenario before with these scammers and usually they say that they are at Bangkok airport, but really they are in Nigeria or somewhere similar. This one surprised me a little though, because looking at my phone, the telephone number displayed was a Thai mobile phone number. So continuing to play their game, I asked him what the problem was, from experience I knew what he was going to say next. He said that he didn't have a required clearance certificate and that I could arrange this by sending $3,200 to a company colleague that he would send to me by email and went on to ask me to check my email now, then closed the line.
When I checked my email, he had given me the name and address of someone in UK and given instructions to send the required $3,200 to this person by Western Union money transfer. I know that this is all a scam game, even though this courier is supposed to be carrying $10,000,000 for me, so I just forwarded his email to the 'consignee' saying that if he needed his courier to be cleared by Thai customs, then he would have to sort out the clearance certificate, knowing full well that it is all just a pre-planned game to try and get money from me, but I enjoy playing them at their own game.
It went quiet for a while, so I made myself my usual cup of tea and breakfast of bananas. I had already saved the telephone number in my mobile, so when my phone rang again about thirty minutes later it was flashing the name of 'Scam' as the caller, I answered the call and the person at the other end of the line was obviously getting flustered now, he asked me quickly if I had sent the money to clear him from customs, so I just slowly replied that I had sent an email to the consignee to clear this problem, this flustered him even more and he asked me if I had any money to help, so I just casually replied that I had about $15 and asked him if that would help. He then changed tactics and said that he would have to stay longer than expected and that he didn't have the money for his expences, so I then said to him, 'Well, just pass your phone over to a Thai customs official and I can sort this out in five minutes", he then asked me what I was going to say to the Thai customs, to which, I just replied that it was just between me and the Thai customs official and none of his business. At this point 'the courier' said that he would go to the customs office to arrange it and he closed the phone and that was the last I heard from him
The funny thing about this story is that the 'diplomatic courier', was supposed to be English and went by the name of 'Newman Charlton' and I almost laughed out loud when I first spoke to him on the phone, because he had the thickest Nigerian accent that I have ever heard before. Well! I don't think that I shall be hearing from that scam again, but I have another five scams on the go at the same time, so I shall have some fun with them too
Cheers for now
Legless scam player in Thailand
I was just using some of the words from my websites on the search engines yesterday, I put in the two words 'legless' and 'RAF'. These words are used on my websites because I am legless, I served in the RAF for more than 12 years and I was just checking if the search engines had registered these words for me. I was quite surprised that most of the search engines had me listed on the first results page for these words, even some of the pages from my new legless HQ website where there too. I was not surprised by the only other person listed in these results though and quite rightly for me, Douglas Bader dominated the results. Douglas Bader was my childhood hero, the famous, legless, World War II flying ace for the RAF. I personally met Douglas in the late 1960s when I had just finished studying at the RAF college, he even showed me one of his false legs then too.
I never thought at the time when I met Douglas, that about forty years later I would have the same physical disability that he had already been coping with for many years by that time and I think that it is because of the influence of his attitude upon me, that I don't let my own physical problem of being legless get me down. In fact, I don't even think about it most of the time at all, I can fully understand now how Douglas just got on with what he felt that he had to do at the time and didn't even give his personal disabilities a second thought.
So just by using the search engines to check my website rankings yesterday, brought back some good memories for me and prompted me to think about someone whom I hadn't thought about for a very long time and now having the same physical problem myself, it has given me an insight into the way that Douglas must have been thinking during the war and how he quite easily coped with it.
Thinking about all of this 'legless stuff' has made me thirsty now. "Time for more beer!"
Cheers for now
Ex RAF Legless in Thailand
I didn't write any post yesterday because I am still trying to iron out all of the glitches with my new HQ site, many times I have thought that I had finished it, but then working through all of the pages, I click on a link and my customised error page appears and usually the problem is either the file extension is wrong, or it is looking for the file in a folder that doesn't exist, because on the HQ site all of the folders / directories have new names, so the files that I have copied from my other sites now reside in different folders on the new site.
I still have plans to create more new pages and folders for this site, but they have to take a back seat at the moment whilst I get the site functioning 100% correctly, because this is something that the search engines check when they index / spider your site and it is very important. If anyone reading this post is interested in my HQ site, it is available now at http://www.leglesshq.com and if you find any problems whilst you are on there I would appreciate any feedback from any of you. Oh! I almost forgot to tell you, Yahoo has my HQ site in their cache memory now too.
Cheers for now
Legless problems at Legless HQ
Working on my new website again today, I still have to make time to do my daily SEO work for my other websites. Today checking my search engine rankings I just typed in 'Legless HQ' to see what websites rank for these words and I got a pleasant surprise from Google again, Google has my new website ranked already. My Legless headquarters website has only been uploaded for five days and again Google has shown just how quick and efficient they are at monitoring the web as a whole.
Cheers Google
Legless at Legless HQ
I am very busy at the moment with the new website, but I just took a quick break to write this post. Although my new website has virtually the same content as my existing websites, the links and button destinations are completely different and also because I am relocating some of the pages it is very easy to overlook that although 'home' points to the 'index page', sometimes the index has an 'htm' extention and sometimes it has an 'html' extension, so consequently the odd one doesn't work having been relocated now. So now I am having to check through all of my new webpages and it takes a lot of time and a lot of beer to do it properly =
Something that I have not spoken about for a long time is my Ramsay Hunt Syndrome 'RHS', I am still suffering with it a little but it has eased a lot, now the only symptoms are the drooping mouth and jaw on one side of my face and I am still unable to close one of my eyes properly. There has been no facial pain again for more than a month now, so hopefully it is repairing itself gradually, only time will tell!
Well, back to the websites again.
Cheers for now
Legless with the hunt in Thailand
When I lost my leg, it didn't really cause me any great concern and still doesn't today, I don't let physical problems get me down, just something that you have to put up with and accept. So now I am 'legless' just accept it and make the most of it if you can. I find it a little amusing sometimes that other people feel sorry or pity for my physical disability, because I don't feel any of those things for myself about being an amputee, it's just normal for me now.
Living in Thailand, every two months I have to travel to Penang for Thai visa regulations and I had been doing this for a while now. When I first went to Penang, I found a good, reasonably priced place to stay, the Blue Diamond Hotel in Georgetown. This hotel also has a good food and drink area at the front and features live music in the evenings, which I enjoy, so this soon became my regular haunt when visiting Penang. The staff in the hotel are very friendly and because I am a regular visitor, fairly soon they all recognised me on sight each time I went there. But probably because they have hundreds of different guests each week, the one thing that they had problems remembering about me, was my name. 
So just after I received my first copy of my published book early last year, I had to go again to Penang for Thai visa regulations and whilst I was sitting in the cafe area at the Blue Diamond, just proof-reading my book, the owner of the hotel there spotted me, recognised me and came over to greet me. He was interested in my book and asked if he could borrow it to read, so I agreed and gave it to him. He then started to thank me and I could see that he was struggling to remember my name, but he glanced at the book and then said "Thank you John, I shall make sure that you have it back before you leave". I started smiling then and explained to him that John McMiken is only my writing name and that my real name is Ian, he had my book 'Legless in Thailand' in his hand, so I just pointed to it and said "Maybe it is easier if you just call me 'Legless'" and pointed to my false leg and said "You know that I am legless anyway, so it will be much easier for you to remember".
So that was how my name 'Legless' started and now everyone who knows me in Penang greets me by shouting "Hi Legless, how's it going?" and nobody forgets my name anymore.
Cheers for now
Legless in body and name
I have been quiet for a few days now because I have been working on a new website full time snd I have not even had time for this blog. The new website is called Legless Headquarters (HQ) and is now operational at http://www.leglesshq.com What I have been doing with this new website is consolidating all of my websites into one server for ease of use and speed for the viewer. I still have my old veteran websites like this blog and my new websites still look and feel the same as the existing ones. The time that it has taken me is because every single link on every page on all of my websites had to be changed and it has been a real legless nightmare trying to make everything perfect without hitches.
It is still not perfect yet and will take some time to iron out all of the glitches that I haven't spotted yet, but the majority of the work is done now and the rest will just take regular routine maintenance. Because of the extra webspace that I have now, I have treated myself to a personal website in my new group of sites and I shall be putting a lot of personal information on there with time that I can use to refer people from my blog here to see, my new personal site is available at: http://reedasia.leglesshq.com it is just basic at the moment, because that was the last thing that I was doing before I eventually got to sleep early this morning.
This blog should be back to normal now, so I shall write again tomorrow.
Cheers for now
Legless at legless headquarters
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My first published book - Legless in Thailand
My new novel, still being written - Ex Post Facto
My other blog at the St Helens Star newpaper, UK
My home town St Helens, UK and their famous rugby team
Some of my short stories HERE
Biography of author John McMiken
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