Just a short one..

I was living in Thailand, hanging out on the beaches, loving durian, and drinking lots of sugar cane juice, - not to mention the abundance of jelly coconuts.

Anyhow, Harmonie, in England at the time, hears that her brother, Nigel, and his wife are heading to Thailand to bird watch, and being the bubbly enlightened being she is, she told them to look out for her friend Mango (me), a bare foot guy with unkempt hair.

Yeah, like, as if they would just bump into me like that?! "ok, ok..", they humoured her, never expecting they would ever lay eyes on me, though she insisted they would.

Move forward a month or 2.. I am sitting in an internet cafe in Krabi, South West Thailand. Happily minding my own business deleting junk mail from my inbox.

In walks this girl, and we catch eyes, but I think nothing of it, and carrying on wading through the spam.

10 minutes later, we are both done. She is ahead of me at the door, and is about to leave.. Then suddenly she hesitates, turns around to me, and says - "You wouldn't by any chance be called Mango?"