FOR THE EXPAT IN ALL OF US!
Welcome to the AWOL Blog (and for those of you who do not know what a ‘blog’ is meant to be, it is, according to the dictionary, “A Web site on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis.” The term comes from two words that were originally spliced together, ‘web’ and ‘log’ to give us ‘weblog’, and as is the nature of the modern way with words, this then got shortened to ‘blog’. This no doubt gets shortened further in text speak to just ‘blg’ but we really don’t want to go there. AWOL will post information about the newspaper, website and other ramblings that readers are free to comment on . The rules for posting remain the same, so please remind yourself of the terms and conditions of membership of AWOL before going any further.
As readers will hopefully have noticed, over the last few months we have been revamping the site, trying to make it more easily accessible and simpler to navigate. In the process, we have come to the realisation that nowhere on the site is any explanation of our name, or how it came to be, so this short post is to fill that hole. As outlined here, the AWOL newspaper was launched in 2008, and the name and concept was the idea of Colin Devonshire, whose wife Boom was in charge…
The 2015 AWOL Christmas Card is finally ready, so sit back, turn up the volume and feast your eyes!
Well it has been a long time coming but finally here is another entry to the AWOL Blog! Hopefully you may have noticed a few changes over the last few months on this website, and today we can announce a new facility for anyone who is logged on to our Forum – the AWOL Chat Bar. This adds the capability for members of our site to have live chats with each other, and with us here at AWOL when they are online. We must stress though that you must be…
A very happy Thai New Year to everyone, and we hope you all have fun and stay safe whatever you are doing over Songkran. No AWOL this week due to the festivities but we return next Friday (20th April). Sawasdee Pee Mai!
Let us introduce you all to the Directory; currently it doesn’t have many entries but that will change over the coming weeks and months. Essentially it is like an online yellow pages, without being yellow. It is free for any business to submit a basic listing (subject to approval), with an option to have a featured listing at a small cost (from 300 baht for 90 days). As a special opening offer, any business who is paying for advertising in the AWOL newspaper can get a free featured listing for…
It has been a gruelling week trying to manipulate, beat, coax and drag our new website into shape but we are finally here! Hopefully you, our readers, will find it all worthwhile, and over the coming days and weeks (after about 30 hours of sleep) we will highlight some of the new stuff you can find here, as well as some of the old stuff that has been polished up and given a new shine. Just as a quick guide for now, there are now six sections to the site,…