I Once Read Somewhere That,

I Have Found Having My Dad As My North Star Has Worked Well For Me.

Tattoos Are So Widespread, So Ugly And So Very, Very Permanent. You Can, In Theory, Have Them Removed - But A Large Chunk Of Your Living Flesh Will Go With It.

There Are A Handful Of Barbecue Seafood Shacks On The Beach At Hat Nai Yang, Which Is A Fabulous Place To Have Dinner. It's Very Much Run For Locals And They Serve The Catch Of The Day, Which Might Be Lobster, White Snapper Or Squid. It's Ridiculously Reasonable, Too.

It's Painful And It's Messy. But Sometimes You Just Have To Make The Break And Start Again.

Largely This Is A Class Thing - Writers Tend To Be Cosseted Little Middle-class Kiddies Who Think That The World Owes Them A Royalty Cheque. But Just Doing It - Being In Your Room For Years On End, Locked In Your Head, Alone With Invented Ghosts - It Weakens And Softens The Body. And I Know I Can't Just Live In My Head.