Flying Sporran

It’s been a hell of a year and the judges have really been scratching their heads with the motley collection on offer for this year’s awards. There are of course some of the old contenders still there who unbelievably just keep popping up again and again. But there have been some delightful new arrivals on […]

Well a very Merry Christmas to all readers  of this site and best wishes for a great New Year.   I have been taking a wee break during the festive season.  Normal abnormal service will resume shortly Meanwhile there’s still one more day to get Santa Claus to send your kids a special video message […]

 -THAIS TELL GERMAN TO FICK OFF! – Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary- I was a little startled to see at the weekend a protest by Thais against a German national who stabbed to death a Labrador belonging to a Thai Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer. The German national claimed that the unleashed Labrador, or Golden Retriever […]

Coming Soon – A Can Of Worms. – Following an earlier report here owners of Emerald Palace condominium in Pattaya who found that their properties had been hawked to the Kasikorn Bank by a local developer have received a  sympathetic hearing at the local office of the Attorney General. With all the faffing about which […]

-A BONNIE DAY FOR THAI JUSTICE- Scottish fraudster Brian Goudie failed in his bid today to get a creditor sent to jail for trespass and alleged libel. Goudie, formerly known as Goldie, a man with three convictions and a six year sentence for fraud in Australia, had brought a case against Briton Andy Matthews at […]

Ok – I just like the picture. Not a gay male attendant in sight and all the female ones dressed in shorts similar to the ones I potter around the garden in. A Flying Sporran Chauvanistic Travel Advisory. From February next yeart you will be able to fly to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) from […]

The effrontery of it all! Drew Noyes, the American businessman first exposed for fraudulent dealings by the American newspaper the Wilmington Morning Star and more recently for other matters on this site, will tell a court tomorrow (Monday) that he has been libeled in a picture caption which read ‘Going to Jail’. He claims the […]

-Exclusive to Guardian readers only though, where a plethora of penile amputations in Thailand has all got something to do with schadenfreude- zzzzzzz! Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary- Sometimes I love the Guardian – or Manchester Guardian as I prefer to call it. I have written for it many times, more so in the distant past […]

Just when the tourism woes of the Thai province of Krabi seemed to have died down, the video ‘Evil Man in Krabi’ having been put to the back of most people’s minds, another blow comes from the Sun.  Britain’s biggest selling daily has run a story about a machete attack on a young British couple there. Actually […]

‘Aw haud yer whisht –  an gie us yon bottle ae ‘Blaand’. If there’s one thing Scots can do its to distill a good whisky, and beer too if you like Belhaven’s.  But there has been a new development in my homeland which is causing me concern – and its going to be stacked on the shelves […]