Archive sections: ‘Weekly_Postcards’
Today, I am not sure what to write … the events of the last few days, which you will have seen in your news programmes and newspapers, seems to have thrown the whole picture into turmoil once more. Up until Thursday night everything seemed to be settling down into a typical long hot summer. Working [...]
In a previous postcard I used the phrase, “No news is good news”. Well, this week has been an example of that … which means that Kyrgyzstan has settled back down to its usual “sleepy” self … and that this week’s postcard is, mercifully, shorter. That’s not to say that nothing has been happening … [...]
Following last week’s “massive missive” … which could hardly have fitted onto an ordinary “postcard”, I had hoped that this week’s contribution will be shorter, reflecting a more peaceful, if less “interesting”, period. Perhaps that was wishful thinking. Sorry.
My brother, Tony, once took up photography as a hobby and I remember how he equipped the bathroom with plastic trays and bottles of chemicals so that he could develop and print his own films. I was too young at the time to really appreciate all that was going on but I do remember the [...]
I appreciate that Kyrgyzstan is not on everyone’s radar … at least one my correspondents has pointed this out to me, what with the numerous other crisis points around the world. Natural disasters, man-made disasters, war situations and civil strife … indeed, it all seems a bit apocalyptic. But then, I’ve had that particular feeling [...]
“Seven Days in May” was a 1964, Oscar nominated, film staring Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, and Frederic March with Ava Gardner adding the “female” interest. It tells the story of how US military leaders, (led by Chief of the Defense Staff, Burt Lancaster), plot to overthrow an increasingly unpopular President, (Frederic March), because he supports [...]
This week has been like trying to solve a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. It seems as if I have left the land of reality and have settled to live in a land of rumour and counter rumour, speculation and supposition, ambiguity and indecision, doubt and uncertainty. There is a constant stream of News reports, gossip and [...]
This week, there was an earthquake in eastern Kazakhstan which, according to the United States Geological Survey, measured 4.5 on the Richter scale, (or whatever modification of the scale they use these days). Some tremors were apparently felt here in Bishkek, although it wasn’t serious and I can’t say that I was particularly aware of [...]
It’s a week since I last wrote a postcard about the recent events here in Kyrgyzstan … and as the former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, once commented, “A week is a long time in politics.” It has certainly been a long week … an eventful week.
This is an email that I sent out to family and friends, colleagues and clients following the events of April 7th, 2010, when Kyrgyzstan found itself in the headlines once again as the result of what one newspaper called the “Easter Revolution” Let me start this “postcard” with some thanks, an apology and an explanation: [...]
