Author: Rosencrantz O'Dowd

Due to popular demand [ cough ], I’ve been thinking on the pros and cons of living in Vietnam.

Below are the details, bearing in mind that, as a traveller, I’m a Young Player, so only have NZ, and Thailand, to compare.

cons;
– advertising
– bikes
– heat
– RHR + aircon

pros
– coffee + food
– beach
– cheap
– bike

“Good things take time,” says the old TV ad – but I’m unsure whether it applies to books as much as cheese or wine.

Rumours from the Pit has been (self-)published by Xlibris.com.

For me, it’s the end of a saga which began nearly 25 years ago. Here’s how.

I’d landed – again – back in my hometown Whangarei. After licking my wounds for a while, I began to look around for something productive to do.

Meantime, my old friend Carl Wyant was talking ( via letter ) about putting together a collection of his newspaper columns for publication.

Around that time, I got my first PC, having used them since the early 1990s in two previous jobs as Joe The Reporter.

And for want of anything better to do, Carl or I – I can’t remember which – nominated me to transcribe his best columns to digital format.

There followed three months or so of slugging away on the PC, in between a storm of letters. These were typed and posted, just like the 1970s. I use the word storm because a fair few of them bordered on … irascible.

New Zealand isn’t a sub-tropical destination and our homes are ‘piss poor’

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