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British expat amputee in Thailand
'Let it be'
Legless Blog -I first decided to create this blog page after seeing all of the bad publicity given to and constant hounding of my fellow legless celebrity, Heather Mills on many other websites and in the media in general. This page I created as a place where I can state my personal opinions, thoughts and musings openly, and just share my views and feelings with the Internet World.
This is my legless website, I pay for it and I am the manager, owner/boss/ruler of it, so 'legless or not', as 'freedom of speech' is still a basic human right in true democratic countries where you can view this blog, then I feel that this is somewhere that I can speak my mind without recourse. This is not a commercial page, it is just my own social media page. Nobody has forced any of you to come here and nobody is holding you here, so if you don't agree or like what you are reading here, then please feel free to leave at anytime!
As someone who has exactly the same physical injuries that I have, I find that the hounding of Heather Mills by the media is disgusting. I now see how celebrities, legless or not, can never have a normal life, because they never have time to themselves without someone from the media trying to drag up any kind of dirt from what would just be a normal everyday incident to anyone else, but in Heather's case any normal incident gets sensationalised by the media. Heather's physical disability seems to incite them more, and being honest, if I personally was hounded the way that Heather is, then some of these media personnel would consider being only 'legless' a bonus after the physical injuries that I would personally inflict upon them. I am thoroughly disgusted at the treatment of Heather, I suppose you could call it a feeling of 'Legless unity', so if any of the media responsible are reading this blog, then in Paul McCartney's own words "Let it be". Listen to the music.
We are both legless!
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'The Legless Blog June 2008 by The Legless Fool'
I was wondering what to write on here today and the only thing that is unusual at the moment is the weather here, so I thought I would write about that. Then I was doing my usual search engine thing and playing with the words on my websites with the search engines and I found that I am very highly ranked on all of them for the words 'legless coma'. These two words are on my websites when I have been writing about my accident and being in a coma and the word legless is on all of my websites anyway. Thinking about these two words together makes me smile, because it just about describes how I go to sleep each night / morning, I take my leg off and after all of the beers that I have been drinking whilst working on my computer, I do tend to slip into what I term is a legless coma rather than just falling asleep and now it seems that the search engines agree with me about this 
.
Now onto the weather! This year the weather is very unusual here in Thailand, the rainy season normally starts at the end of May and runs through to the end of October, but this year apart from the odd thunder storm, the rains haven't really started yet and it is now the end of June. For me it is good because it means that I haven't been completely infested with flying termites yet, but if the rains start late this year, will they finish late too? We shall just have to wait and see now.
Cheers for now 
The legless fool going into a coma again now. 
I have been quiet on here for a couple of days because I am concentrating on getting my new legless HQ website working properly and also updating my memoirs in the Asian Diaries section on a daily basis too. This keeps me very busy at the moment because when I think that I have just about completed my work for the day, I then find a bad link on the site. I now have more than 65 pages just on the one site alone and it can take a lot of time to check all of the links out, especially when many of my diary pages have more than ten links on each page. I am supposed to be retired now, but with my websites, diary memoirs and internet SEO work, I am putting in more than sixteen hours each day at the moment.
So much for being retired! Oh well, Back to work now!
Cheers for now
The retired legless fool on the web
Today I wrote a new webpage for my Reed in Asia section of my Legless HQ website, this page is something that I have had planned for a very long time, but I have just never got around to writing it before. The page is about the person that caused me to be in the situation that I find myself in today and if I had never met her, I probably would still have two legs today too, because I only had the accident in which I lost my leg when I was carrying out her wishes. The full story about my relationship with this person can be found in my 'Legless in Thailand' book and the only reason that I created the new webpage today about this person, is out of pure spite and hatred of what she did to me without a second thought before.
Just as with the writing of my book, making this webpage today has actually helped me, by releasing some of the tensions caused by the hatred of this person that I have been carrying around with me for many years now. I have actually put photos of this girl on the webpage, but what I haven't done on there is state her real name and actual location now. If anyone would like to see this webpage and the photos of this person then just click on this link: The Thai whore from hell and see and read about the person that completely ruined my life before.
Cheers for now
The legless fool with revenge on the web
Still writing a page a day in my Asian Diaries, I do recall some of the emotions at that time, but what has not really been apparent to me up until now, is the fact that in the period that I am writing about, I still have two legs, I am not legless yet 
. It only came home to me today because I have just finished today's diary entry and I am now thinking about tomorrow's page. At the end of today's page I am on board an aircraft bound for Chiangmai and then thinking about tomorrow, I know that I went to Doi Suthep in Chiangmai for the first time and walked up the many steps to the Buddhist temple there and I then realised that I could not do that today being legless now, so it is the first time that I have compared the time when I had two legs to my situation today.
Cheers for now
The legless fool with two legs in Thailand
Writing my Asian Diaries each day, I have to upload the page to the server each day and also update the index page, the RSS, a link on the previous page and the sitemap, then browse the site and check that they are all working okay. Well, yesterday I uploaded all of the files, but when I went to check them on the browser, they were still the same as the day before, no change, I automatically click the 'refresh' button on the browser, but I clicked it again and still no change, I also had the same problem trying to update my RSS. At first I thought that maybe it was a problem with my browser just remembering the page and not updating properly, so I opened a different browser that I keep in reserve and the problem was still the same. I then uploaded the files again to the server and checked on my FTP program that the files were actually being stored and overwritten on my server and I could see that they were, so then I came to the conclusion that my server was not displaying the updated files and was just using some cache memory when anyone browsed my site. I sent an email today to my hosting service about this and they are currently looking into the problem. I hope that they can find out what the problem is quickly, because what is the point of having an RSS feed if you can't update it?
Cheers for now
The legless fool with server problems, amongst others!
Writing the page for my Asian Diaries today, I have been writing about an event that happened to me 24 years ago in Thailand. I went for my first day out driving around Thailand and went to Kanchanaburi, where the bridge over the river Kwai is situated. I went with the girl that was then staying with me and I had a very good day. It is a day that is easy for me to remember, because it was the day that changed my mind about my future and ultimately led to where I am today, I shall not say any more about it on here because I do not want to detract from the Asian Diary entry itself. I will say though, that I have now put music on some of the pages in the diary and the music relates to that particular time in my life. The music for this day in the diary is 'Magic' sung by Olivia Newton-John and when I hear that song even these days, I always remember that day before and what I was doing when this song was playing.
Cheers for now
The legless fool with memories in Thailand
A bit later than usual, but I had to do the monthly maintenance on this blog today, archive the blog for May and update the links, sitemap and RSS.
Well today is Friday the 13th, I hope nobody has any mishaps today, I know it is just superstition, but some people take it seriously, when was the last time you were in a lift and saw a thirteenth floor? In my life, every day seems to be like a Friday the thirteenth, so for me it is just another boring day like all the rest, nothing out of the ordinary to worry about. Being a little bit superstitious though, maybe I should drink thirteen beers tonight to placate any evil spirits around me. So I shall have a happy, legless, Friday the thirteenth.
Cheers for now
The legless fool and superstition
People who sometimes contact me from the internet like to ask me "Why do you use the word legless a lot on your websites, doesn't it embarrass you?" I just tell them that I never asked to be legless, it was just the hand that I was dealt and I find the term quite amusing when applied to me, it probably couldn't have happened to a more applicable person and if you've been dealt this legless hand, then just play it the best way that you can .
More legless words of wisdom tomorrow after another night of beer, my words come easier then .
Cheers for now
The legless fool and his legless reasoning
I told you yesterday that the search engines had classed me as the legless fool, well using the same logic, the search engines have also categorised my book as the 'Legless Book' and it comes up number one for these search words on almost all of them. Therefore, we basically have a 'Legless Book' written by a 'Legless Fool', so it should be fairly unique and easy to find on the internet now and all I really have to do is let everyone on the internet know that I am 'Legless' I'll drink to that!
Cheers for now
The legless fool and his legless book
I wrote a post on here a few months ago now, stating that I was surprised that even though some of the search engines had problems finding my book for the normal keywords, when I was playing around with the words in the content of my book webpage, I used two of the words on the page 'Legless' and 'Fool' and then all of the search engines found my book easily. I remember then that I wrote on here at that time, that the search engines unanimously agree that I am a legless fool. Well ever since that day I have adopted the search engines' categorisation of me and I now even call myself the 'Legless Fool'. That is why you see now that I always sign off on each post as 'The legless fool in Thailand'. Well, they do say that if you can't beat them, then join them, "thank you to all of the search engines for giving me a new web celebrity name" I am now the official search engine certified, legless fool on the web.
Cheers for now
The official legless fool on the web
I didn't post anything on this blog yesterday because other than talking about the scammers that I am playing with and my Asian Diaries, I have nothing of interest to talk about now. Even the parasites here are playing things low key at the moment, my money has been in the bank for four days now and they have only taken out 1,000 baht and said that it was for my beer and one box of beer arrived so I can't complain too much at the moment.
The rains still haven't really set in yet this year, we get the occasional storm some nights, but the rainy season hasn't really kicked in yet this year, it is very late now, the rains usually start at the end of May like clockwork, so I don't know what is happening this year.
Well hopefully I may have something of interest to talk about soon, until then have a nice day and try not to get too legless
Cheers for now
The legless fool in Thailand
I haven't metioned them for a while because you may get bored with it, but I am still playing with scammers everyday, I usually have about five or six of them on the go at any one time. This week has been a little interesting for me, after four years of playing with these people, even I get bored with them at times. It looks like they all go to the same scam college or read the same reference books for scams, I can almost write all of their initial emails from memory now, only the names and the amount of money offered changes each time with many of them and even their follow up emails I can guess what is in them before I read them.
But this week I have had a couple of different stories, one that I found quite amusing was when 'the bank director' called for fees for procurement of legal documents to release my funds and then when I didn't send the money, they sent me an email saying that, because I have not met up with their requirements, then they think that I am not genuine and trying to defraud the bank and they will pass my details to interpol, the FBI, Scotland Yard, etc. and I could face a 21 year jail sentence. I just replied to them and said "Thanks for the good laugh, that was the most stupid, nonsensical, idiotic and illogical email that I have ever received, please send me some more emails soon, because I could do with a good laugh these days." They never replied again
Cheers for now
The legless fool in Thailand having fun with scammers
On the input to my Asian Diaries over the last two days, I have now written about a certain event that happened in my life a long time ago in Asia that started to change my way of thinking and started to put doubts in my mind about how good my life was as it stood at that time, in comparison to what it could be. For people reading this blog post that have already read my diaries, then you will see that the title of this post has a double meaning that will not be apparent to people who have not read the diaries yet and it is a hint about what will become apparent with time.
Because my Asian Diaries are just memories for me, I look at them with hindsight and I don't want to write anything on this blog that will pre-empt events in the diaries. But, as I have done in this blog today, I shall give the occasional hint that will only have a meaning for my Asian diary readers.
Well, I think that is enough for tonight, we have a big electrical storm here at the moment and it is pouring down with rain and as a precaution I have disconnected my modem and I am writing this offline, there is nothing else that I can do when I am offline, so I think it is now time to get down to some serious drinking for tonight
Cheers for now
The legless fool with hindsight in Thailand
I am now writing a page a day again for my Asian Diaries and because the diaries are now quickly approaching a major turning point in my life, I am now trying to self-analyse my actions at that time: "Why did I do that? What was I thinking about? What were my plans at that time? What were my feelings?" I did the exact same thing after I finished the first draft of my autobiography Legless in Thailand and really the diaries are an autobiography too, but in much more depth and I was only slightly legless then.
One good thing is, that at least I seem to have got my mind back on what I am doing again now, rather than it wandering a thousand kilometres away, like it has been doing over most of the last week.
Cheers for now
The legless fool back on track in Thailand
I am gradually, very slowly, getting back into the swing of things again now, but I still have emotional problems that are going to take a very long time to settle down. To try and help me at the moment, I am sitting at my computer all day each day and just trying to concentrate on my Asian Diaries. Also to try to help, I have lots of music on my computer that I play whilst I am working, but I only collect songs that have lyrics with special meaning in them and I have quite a large collection now.
I have always enjoyed good music/songs and maybe I am unusual (that's for sure), but I remember times in my life from certain music/songs at that time rather than the date or year itself, maybe not music that was popular for other people at that particular time, but music that I chose to play then, so most of my memories are linked to songs. And, although I have set my computer audio player to play a large selection of my songs randomly rather than sequentially, occasionally a song plays that has very special meaning for me and I start to lose concentration and my mind starts wandering again. The title of this post is the opening lyrics from an album that does have very special meaning for me and when it played just now on my computer, it completely distracted me from what I was doing and I decided to write this post tonight.
I am sorry if I am boring any of you with some of my posts on here, but in my present situation and state of mind, this is my only means of communication / outlet with anyone that I consider worth talking to.
Cheers for now
The legless fool even deeper in thought in Thailand
To my blog Archive for May 2008
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P.S. "I don't remember reading the small print when I signed on for this life, in fact, I don't remember signing on at all, I was probably legless then too! So seeing as you wont let me resign, can we renegotiate the contract please?"
My first published book - Legless in Thailand
My other blog at the St Helens Star newpaper, UK
My home town St Helens, UK and their famous rugby team
Some of my short stories HERE
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