NOT THAT ANYONE IS READING THIS…

04/03/24 17:22

Lawrence Gray assesses the electoral choice that is about to be made in the Great British Election of 2024. Read More…

TIME FOR A ROLEX

29/02/24 15:49 Filed in: fiction | philosophy

Lawrence Gray contemplates memories and their fleeting attachment to reality. Read More…

ID

21/12/23 15:30

Lawrence Gray ponders his identity on returning to the UK after living in Asia for thirty years. Read More…

THE UK IN DECLINE

30/05/23 16:51

Is the UK in decline? Has it always been in decline? Or have we always been a grumpy bunch who've always complained that things were better before? Read More…

THE PATIENT

19/01/23 18:05

Lawrence Gray has a near death experience that takes his breath away, or was it that his breath was taken away and hence the near death experience. Either way, instead of his life flashing before his eyes, the contents of old TV shows did. Read More…

Brainwashed and Fancy Free

18/06/22 18:22

Lawrence Gray examines the western narrative, Top Gun, Censorship, and the nature of story telling. Read More…

I don’t need a ride, I need ammunition

29/03/22 18:13

Lawrence Gray contemplates the power of the authentic man.

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UPLOAD ME WHEN I DIE

10/01/22 12:39 Filed in: Lifestyle

Lawrence Gray contemplates being uploaded into the Metaverse. Read More…

And so hello England!

08/12/21 18:25 Filed in: British Society

Lawrence Gray has arrived back in Britain after thirty years in Asia and finds himself navigating the technicoloured British soul.

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And so farewell steamy Malaysia...

08/09/21 03:54 Filed in: Travel

Out of the frying pan and into… Read More…

DAMN! IT'S LOCKDOWN AGAIN!

@#$%! Lockdown yet again! Read More…

A ROAD TRIP AROUND MALAYSIA

06/05/21 07:44

As an experiment we created a flip book about our journey around Malaysia to see if this is an interesting way of presenting such material on a web site. See what you think. Read More…

WHAT ON EARTH IS COOL NOWADAYS?

Lawrence Gray wonders why only he is cool? Read More…

SMOKING

Lawrence Gray decides that he needs a new vice!

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JUST ONE DAMNED THING AFTER ANOTHER

Lawrence Gray takes a look at Hansard and goes all gooey eyed about Parliamentary Democracy.

AGE IS BUT A NUMBER!

05/05/21 08:15 Filed in: Age | birthday | Wisdom | Philosophy | The meaninglessness of it all

It's my birthdaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! Lawrence Gray tries to see the positive side of having one foot in the grave.

PANIC DON'T PANIC

Yes! Christmas is coming! Or maybe not… because the Virus is back.

BREAKOUT!

16/06/20 05:02 Filed in: vLOG!

THE BREAKOUT V-LOG

Lawrence Gray has gone stir crazy but now he is allowed to do more than purchase booze and bread flour and can go hunt crocodiles among the mangroves. Read More…

TRANQUILLO!

After dismissing the virus as nothing to worry about, then deciding that everyone should worry about it, I am now of the opinion that perhaps I was right in the first place, but I could be wrong. Read More…

What's your plan?

12/05/20 09:42 Filed in: The Future | After covid | The Plague

Lawrence Gray contemplates the post-virus world and asks people to use this time to think carefully about what they want in the future? Read More…

THE FEUDAL SPIRIT

11/04/20 09:18 Filed in: comedy | P.G.Wodehouse | Jeeves | Wooster | Literature

P.G.Wodehouse, the quintessential English writer, was threatened with being tried for treason by the British and spent most of his working life in America. It's a funny old world. Read More…

PANIC NOW!

24/03/20 08:20 Filed in: The Plague | Social Distancing | corvid19 | virus

Lawrence Gray wants none of you slackers to sit back and think calm, life affirming thoughts while the plague rages. He wants you to panic, and panic good and proper! Read More…

THE END OF THE WORD

It is the end of the word! Is that a typo I see before me or something far more insidious? Lawrence Gray examines the unexaminable and comes to a deeply digressive conclusion. Read More…

BIG WORDS

14/03/20 11:30 Filed in: Politics | History

President Trump announced a National Emergency, and said those were BIG WORDS. I wonder what he actually meant by that? Read More…

Time Gentlemen, Please!

03/11/19 08:35 Filed in: #time #science #philosophy #physics #relativity

Want to know what time it is? Well, that's not such a straight forward question to answer. But I do my best. Read More…

DOGMA

20/10/19 09:02 Filed in: #bonkers #animation #stopaction #whimsy

Every so often one has to embark upon something completely bonkers… Read More…

HIDDEN HISTORIES

03/09/19 11:08 Filed in: video | johor | Documentaries | History

From the makers of The Hidden History of Johor Bahru, i.e. New Johor, comes the Hidden History of Johor Lama, i.e. OLD JOHOR. This is a witty and wide ranging documentary about the extraordinary Sultans of Johor from their mythical origins to their final confrontation with the British!
THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF JOHOR LAMA

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About my parents

22/07/19 11:00 Filed in: reminiscence | Autobiography

My mother recently died and so I thought I would share a few thoughts about this moment. Read More…

Hong Kong Possibilities

18/06/19 09:06 Filed in: Politics | Hong Kong | Extradition Bill | Umbrella Revolution | Demonstrations

Hong Kong is a wild place full of possibilities and it refuses to be tamed and become merely a component of some megalomaniacs grand plan. Read More…

The Sultan and I

07/06/19 04:12 Filed in: Travel | Johor | Malaysia

Lawrence Gray meets the Sultan of Johor Read More…

Blogging a dead horse

Is a barrel of naked monkeys more fun than a barrel of hairy ones?