Happy Christmas dear readers from all of us here at Word of Ward Towers! I, I mean, er, we, hope you have a joyous one and if your faith allows it – a drunken one. I usually find it quite a challenge to even get tipsy at Christmas as I am also constantly eating. It’s…
Well, not just Udemy, a variety of sites and apps, but it is definitely one of the better ones. It is always good to better yourself (even though I am sure you’re superb) and thanks to the interweb you can now access a huge variety of learning resources. Obviously if you want to be old-school…
If you are interested in the haunted shenanigans, the occult, ghost, demons, spirits or folklore, then you are in for a treat. A cheap treat too because I am nice like that. A tiny bit of background. Many moons ago, I used to live writing freelance articles for a number of magazines in Bangkok. The…
Winter is coming! I have had several friends and a couple of near strangers ask me when is the best time to visit Thailand when it comes to weather and budget. So I thought I would help. The two things are very much linked like everywhere else. My favourite time of year here in Thailand…
I love data, statistics, facts and figures. Even more so when they are presented in easy to understand formats like pie charts, graphs, and bar charts. You learn but in a really easy and eye-friendly way. I like that. Being something of a cool nerd, I chart quite a lot of my own life and…
For years, I have been searching for the prefect technology combination and I think foldable tech is going to be the answer. Just not for a while. The other day, I saw a Galaxy Fold and got to play with it. It was pretty cool. Essentially a slim and quite thick phone that opens into…
The internet is currently talking about the new Disney+ streaming service. I have to say, it looks amazing and I desperately want them to have my money. Except I can’t. I live abroad. I spend a lot of time in the UK but most of my life is based in Asia. I am currently living…
After last week’s furious rant you will be pleased to hear I am in more of a chipper mood of late. This is possibly down to wearing noise cancelling headphones while I write coupled with an increase in writing or, alternatively, a mild uptick in beer intake (mostly because of rugby). Whichever it is, hello…
I think the title pretty says where I am going to go with this. In case you are slow on the uptake – and if you are a culprit of this you probably are – if you use your phone speaker to talk or play music when in a public place, then I hate you….
A month ago, I left sunny Bangkok for the equally sunny (but much less warm) environs of the UK, Lyon and Venice, where we saw the world famous Biennale. Which was great. I see a fair amount of art as I enjoy it, Mrs Word of Ward is an art curator and an ex I…
The full title is Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) but from now on I will go with the shorter version. Birds of Prey follows the always watchable Margot Robbie as she reprises her role as the bat-shit crazy, bat-wielding, Batman-hating Harley Quinn. The film is set after Suicide Squad…
Ahhh Brexit! As I get older and previously made the decision to no longer care about stuff as much, I have been trying to stay in a glorious state of ambivalence about what is happening in my homeland of the UK. I am flying back tomorrow. I have been trying to read less political shite…
Many moons ago I wrote an article for a Bangkok Magazine called Haunted Thailand. Actually, it was called Ghosts in Thailand or something but my editor changed it and frankly, it is a lot better. It was a print magazine but I copied it to this site. You can read the article here. I had…
I had been meaning to read a James Rollins book for a while and so I thought I might as well start with Sandstorm as it is the first book of his highly rated Sigma Force series. Synopsis The story starts with an explosion in the Arabian wing of the British Museum. This kicks off…
I have recently become impressed by language learning apps. I know, I know, long distance/online learning has been around for a while now, (I got my degree through Open University,) but some of the learning apps available these days are pretty amazing. Especially if you want to study a popular foreign language. I stress popular…
My first ever job was writing for a yachting magazine in Hong Kong. I have since written both freelance and fully employed for magazines and newspapers in the UK, Thailand, New Zealand and Australia. About 90 percent of that has been in print. The last thing I wrote was an article for the Bangkok Post…
I started writing a whining complaint about the increasing move to the subscription model. This was mostly inspired by a diary app I had been using that one day decided to switch from being an app I would happily pay up to £10 for, one off, to one where I would potentially pay hundreds thanks…
I don’t know if it is down to my newfound love of philosophy and embracing a more simple life or whether it is down to technology itself, but I find my gadget purchasing to be slowing down considerably. Ok, I’ll be honest, it is mostly the latter. Technology has gotten so good it is causing…
When I was younger, I was a firm believer in the aphorism, “write drunk, edit sober”. It is a saying attributed to Hemingway that sadly seems untrue. Both in meaning and the fact that he never actually said that. There is a website called Quote Investigator that found what might be the first utterance of…
I had heard a lot about Peaky Blinders but for some reason it just sat on my ‘to watch’ list on Netflix for years while I obsessed over other things. I knew David Bowie was a huge fan and that was man with taste. So yesterday, I decided that it was about time I checked…