Normal Service Will Be Resumed As Soon As Possible We are pleased to announce the birth of our second son Archie Drummond born in Sapan Soong, Bangkok at 3.30 this morning, June 12 2012. Archie is younger brother to Matthew, 2, and Annie, 4. Mother Pat Drummond is as usual doing very well. While Archie has been […]

Flying Sporran’s Bangkok Diary June 7 2012. A short update on an incident earlier this year when a young Irish teacher overreacted and suffered the consequences after taking his six-year-old daughter’s balloons onto the Bangkok Sky Train. Also a guide for readers on what not to take on to the city’s mass transit system. Good heavens what is […]

A Flying Sporran Holiday Island Soap Report The Penguin, a flashy financial consultant exposed on this site last week, has had an adrenalised adventure.  It seems the ‘Grumpy Old Men Society’ of Phuket has at least one member who is not just grumpy and irritable but downright livid. Hence the’Penguin’, real name Neal Davies, took […]

Flying Sporran Sunday June 4 2010 Well this is not quite a news flash. It happened on Saturday but regretfully Drummond  has been taken ill for the last 36 hours. All current threats to www.andrew-drummond.com are now off. At a court hearing in Pattaya Drew Noyes withdrew all actions.  These include  An injunction to have this site […]

Now Thai Supplier Sought In Bali Drugs Case From Andrew Drummond, Denpasar, Bali May 30 2010 The British father of six-year-old Kitty Ponder broke his silence today to say Lindsay Sandiford set himself and his partner Rachel Dougall up with a damning haul of cocaine on the holiday island of Bali. As Bali police continued […]

‘Hello, I’m Kitty. You know just as in ‘Hello Kitty’ says girl whose parents have been taken away from her for ever it seems. The drug busts in Bali are hitting headlines around the world. A recent one involving several Britons is hitting all the UK Press and elsewhere. These stories can be emotive. Even ITN abandoned its […]

 EXCLUSIVE EYE WITNESS ACCOUNT FROM NIELS COLOV Dramatic events apparently unfolded at Pattaya Court, Saturday. Here follows an exclusive report from our man on the spot – and in the witness box – the legendary Pattaya journalist ‘My Press Card Is Real’ Niels Colov EXCLUSIVE BY NIELS COLOV, PATTAYA COURT “Dear All,  I just came back from […]

Tomorrow Saturday May 26th is D Day on attempts by Drew Noyes, publisher of the Pattaya Times, who has been joined by Niels Colov, publisher of the Pattaya People, to block this site from viewers in Thailand. So now I have to step back on reporting this issue and let a colleague journalist take over. On […]

They’re irritable. They like a tipple. They don’t like fakes ruining their retirement playground. Could the mysterious ‘Grumpy Old Men Society’ in Phuket, Thailand, help put an end to charlatans on the island. Read On. Flying Sporran’s Bangkok Midweek Diary I am going slightly off my beat today to say hello to the fine residents of […]

English ‘Gentlemen’ Sometimes Don’t Mind Robbing Old Ladies May 17 2012 They call him ‘The Penguin’.  Could it be because he has all the attributes of the fictitious villain in the ‘Batman’ comic – come- Hollywood hero series – a fiendish mind with a fishy smell about him?  At any rate if you come across this British charmer and […]