Postcard from Bishkek

Sometimes, when I write a postcard, it strikes me that some of things I refer to might be surprising, or cause confusion, or warrant further explanation.

I am a creature of habit. One of my routines back in the UK was, every Sunday to take the weekly washing that had been put into the washing machine and do the ironing listening to Radio Four … the Brit’s reading this will understand what that means … it’s a Talk Radio station run by the [...]

The first part of the name is easy to explain … my name is Ian. So, why “bek”?

The site was actually started long before the days of blogs and social networking sites like My Space and Facebook … at that time, lots of people had personal webpages and websites and I decided to set one up for myself.