Sunday, December 02, 2012

The Philippines

Welcome to my readers in the Philippines.  Unfortunately all I know about the Philippines has been gained from a chapter of Barbara Tuchman's The Proud Tower in which she describes the uneasy American conquest of the archipelago.  I sometimes give donations to World Villages for Children which maintains a Catholic orphanage in the Philippines (http://www.worldvillages.org.uk/WhoWeAre.aspx )

Also I briefly worked for a company off Shaftesbury Avenue where there was a belligerent American manager whose favourite saying was:  I will be back (usually delivered as a kind of managerial threat).

Anyway you are very welcome to this site and do e-mail me if there is any further information you require.

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