Summertime and the living is far from easy

How to avoid getting hot under the collar ingthailand

WHEN GEORGE GERSHWING wrote "Summertime" for the opera porgy and bess, he clearly had laid-balmy days in mind. Back then they hadn't heard of skin cancer, heatstroke, and all the other nasties that come without protection from "That lucky old sun," tha "ain't got mothing to do, but to roll around heaven all day." I love the Ray Charles Version!

Today, we are Better informed and more health coscious. Are we really?

A common sight ind thailand today is that of a scantily-clad young lady passing a street sweeper who is dressed like a bee-keeper: wide-brimmed straw hat,facemask, coverall and baggy pants. Does this lady know something the trourstdoes not? Put your shirt on it!

Ask yourself this : "Why is the sun care business a multi-billion dollar earner?

For decades this industry encouraged you to "Look like a Hollywood star--Bet atan." Don't tell me that their industrial chemists, medical advisers, call them what you will, failed to warm them of the dangers of ultraviolet rays to the human bady! That would be like the Marlboro man telling you not to smoke!

No, these companies just eased on in there with their factor fifty protection products when the medical evidence wes made public. Australian's are,in my humble opinion, the people who were first to recognize the dangers of what used to be called, "a healthy tan."

***As far back as the eighties, Australian childern could be seen wearing the world renowned Akubra hets while travelling to and from school. "No hat today, mate? Then home you go!"

I'm not trying to spoil your holiday in the Land of smiles; merely making sure that you don't leave here with anything other than wonderful souvenirs and happy memories.

The fromer United States President, Harry S. Truman, coined the phrase - "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kichen." A more profound observation tha he realized.

British super-medel, Naomi Campbell, is quoted as saying: "i never wear underwear in tropical conditions." Thand you, Naomi. You have just made a happy man very old!

What fallows is a list of what my old drill instructor in the Parachute regiment fondly alluded to as, "Dog Common sense."



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