Recent debate about fancy timepieces had me thinking about my first ever watch, which my dad bought when I was a kid. That might explain why I am one of those weird people who doesn't see the point of having an expensive watch, especially as I will most likely lose it. And it doesn't matter how expensive your watch might be, it won't prevent you from being late, particularly in Bangkok where arriving on time is something of a minor miracle. Glorious mudI first heard the Grandfather's Clock song on BBC Radio's Children's Favourites which was almost compulsory listening for British kids on a Saturday morning in the 1950s. Other regulars were The Hippopotamus Song, with the stirring refrain "Mud, mud, glorious mud", The Ugly Duckling and Nellie the Elephant who famously fled the circus, "packed her trunk and trundled back to the jungle".

Source: Bangkok Post January 27, 2018 21:45 UTC