Kim Fletcher's famous weekly pub diaries at Jameson's started with the first publication Wednesday, January 26th, 2005.  Each Thursday night, local time, a new diary will be uploaded for your viewing pleasure.

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Welcome 2009

Hello everybody welcome to the first diary of 2009, as you can see there are an awful lot of photos from the Christmas and New Year period, which is great for me, as I don't have to write so much. You know how they say a picture says a thousand words well I reckon we are way passed the million mark already.
With all the amazing things going on outside Jameson's it was amazing how many things were going on inside Jameson's. Christmas was an absolute blast with Rick, Harpic and Pop's Pattaya All Stars headlining the show, with a little help from Blowfly and Malcolm Clare (The Root of All Evil) and his friend Port.
Christmas Day as ever belonged to everybody, and thanks to all for making it such a very pleasant day to all who came for the staff and myself. A quick mention here to Moo, and Wanchai, my left and right arms, Bob managing to keep up with the supply of booze that was required and to Chef Vinai for his magnificent feasts all over Christmas and New Year.
Christmas Day as ever was dominated by the Sam Peebles/Brian Abbott table which accounted for about seventy of our wonderful guests. Sam being one of the first in and definitely the last to leave. Of course the real Sam Peebles and Carole were there and really in charge. Delightfully for The Landlord Mrs. Peebles became Carole during the period of Christmas Lunch. Many other notable characters were in the pub as well for Christmas including Captain Jester Steve Ponter, George Again, Mr. and Mrs. Graham MacDonald. The poor old Landlord did not know which way was up by the end of the day. (But then again when does he?)
New Year’s Eve was a great night and we shall carry on our policy of just having a Pub Night for many years too come. The festivities were led by the George and Geoff Evans Tribe, (see that photo of the staff all with a drink in their hand, and standing round Geoff saying Happy New Year? Well Boro Steve in Australia, you paid for those! And The Root of All Evil Tribe.

After what must of been the wedding of the second half of the year (Don't want to tread on any MacDonald's toes here!). Simon and Debbie Philbrook are now happily married, and after good vacations over here all The Lightley's and Philbrook's of this world are now back home off their holidays, and back in Blighty we hope it will not be long before we see them all again.
2009 will have a lot to live up too to be more interesting than 2008 (we live in interesting times). It starts off with a bang as this weekend is Jimmy Howard's 65th Birthday, and how does he intend to celebrate it, well I can tell you. It's going to start with a massive booze up in Jameson's on Friday 9th January, followed by the next day by a rugby game between Jimmy Howard's 15, and 15 from the Pattaya Panthers. There is more Jimmy intends to have playing on his side Dez Hall (A Reasonable Call), Graham MacDonald (A Ludicrous Decision) and then he wants me The Fat Landlord (An Incredulous Design) to go out onto the field and risk life and limb. It's not that I mind, but imagine how the poor bloke is going to feel after he has decapitated me with a mere glancing blow. That is as far as I will describe the celebrations, because unless I can find somebody to help me hide or get an emergency note from my mum, I personally will not be doing any more celebrating for several weeks. But I am sure everybody else will have a jolly good time. How does Jimmy do it at 65 whatever it is I want a pint of it. Happy Birthday Jimmy from all at Jameson's.
Lots and lots of good folk around as ever over the festivities, a complete invasion force from both The Payne's Jason, Nui, and Leo, and The Keeley's Ron, Weaw and James. Which meant more World of Wines stocks were depleted.

Bob's shirt is the winner on the Wednesday night snazzy shirt competition, knocking Johny Live off the top spot

Ian Harrington in his lair

Pretty Cashiers Fon and Pen

You can see the look on Colin's face. He is looking for a very small Newcastle shirt

Mark is about to do to the Fat Landlord what everybody wanted to do on New Year's Eve start the New Year off properly

Any more of this and the Landlord will be looking for wife number 5

The return of Richard and Maggie. Richard is the owner and leading light behind Pattaya's greatest wine suppliers World of Wine (the real WOW in Pattaya) click onto the Jameson's wine list to see all the house wines exclusively supplied by WOW at Jameson's, or for a more thorough investigation, click onto the direct link to their website on the side of this page

This kid is going to be a star

Hello George

Nova Table builds up a head of steam

Jason, Paul, Darren and Billy. The Jameson's Youth Policy

My Jimmy poses for the camera

This is the moment it all started to go wild on New Year’s Eve, when Boro Steve bought all the staff a drink all the way from Australia. Cheers Steve from all the staff Happy New Year to you

Malcolm Clare yet again lives up to his reputation as The Root of All Evil, as the Ports are handed out

Bob weighs in with a tipple for the staff

The staff seem to like Kobi's new car

Veera though will stick to the trustee Jameson's mobile. Please do not forget that Veera is always available to pick up customers from wherever they maybe, and then later take them onto wherever they maybe traveling onto. Veera will also drive your car home late at night leaving you safely at home with your keys to get a good nights sleep all, safe and sound whilst Veera will get one of the staff to drive him back to the pub, to pick up the next customer

The Font of All Knowledge Graham MacDonald gets ready to roll his sleeves up

Colin shows off another Newcastle shirt

Bob knows a good thing when he sees it. The shirt I mean

Paul

Goodness somebody taller than Darren

Kobi relaxes in Peter’s corner

George and Fair

Champagne for the troops from George Again with Mark Winslade in the background

Nova Table at it illustrious best Captain Jester Steve Ponter, Dez, Malcolm Clare The Root of All Evil, Fat Landlord, Football Captain Brian Abbott, Bryan Clayton, and Sam Peebles would of been there, but was somewhere else (Oh that's it working)

Geordie's in for the Wednesday night Cheese and Pickle Happy Hour. Derek kindly donated a wheel of Stilton, we had Harpic Pickled onions, Chili Con Carne and Rice, Scotch Eggs, Jameson's Pate, and Chicken Satay. The best bit being we have enough of the Stilton left to do it all again, next week, on Wednesday 14th January 6.00 p.m. sharp see you there

You leave Dez in charge for one minute at the end of the night, and what does he do, but get all the staff smashed

Morning from Paul

It's like the North East of England in Jameson's, with Mottman Colin, and Alan leading the way

Safest Baby in the world

The New Year’s Eve Carvery, all you can eat for 395 inclusive. Rather puts all those swanky places that were charging over a 1,000 Baht a head to shame

The Root of All Evil, Malcolm Clare helps carry the staff over the Threshold of 2009, in the way only Malcolm can

Malcolm and Bam Bam

Ae, Malcolm and Bam Bam at the point of lift off

Never ones to hide their light under a bushel are the staff and Dezzy and Big Ken

If you came into Jameson's over the festive period you certainly got the message

Rony, Guy, Tommy and the rest of the Fineman clan enjoy Jameson's

Nova Table with day tripper Ken Sly with his back to camera

Nova Table with The Root of All Evil giving Ken Sly the thumbs up

Thank you Dez

Colin with Pucky!

Mr. and Mrs. Bob in their Jesters Care4Kids Charity Drive shirts, which are on sale at Jameson's. Let me remind you that this year’s main events for the Jesters Care4Kids Charity Drive are The Fair on Sunday 13th September, followed by the Party Night at Jameson's on Saturday 19th September 2009

Ian had a very good Christmas and New Year

Richard and Maggie on a quite night, although a little drop of World of Wines stocks were still polished off

The two Franks, Just Frank and Nobody

Happiness at Jameson's for one and all. Happy New Year Everybody

The lovely Shelley, Eoin Captain of the Pattaya Panthers, who will be playing the opposition side to Jimmy Howard's Rhinos on Saturday with Superman Graham Watkins

It is with great sadness that I must tell you that Mike Franklin passed on to the great golf course on Tuesday morning. The Mr. Golf of Pattaya, the honorary Jester for the Care4Kids Charity Drive, Mike has been involved with the Care4Kids Charity Drive right from the start, and his unswerving passion and enthusiasm was an inspiration to us all. Mike's journalist skills certainly came to the fore, and always at it's best when he was writing, or broadcasting about the children in need. Mike was a very proud man especially of his family to whom all of our sympathy at this rough time goes out to. Through the last few months Mike has shown great courage in dealing with the terrible cancer that was eating away, a real gentleman in every sense right to the end.
I personally shall always remember Mike for his great kindness in introducing me to the world of golf when I first started at Delaney's. Mike was President of the Pattaya Sports Club Golf section at the time and was a very busy man, but showed great generosity in showing a complete novice the ropes, and never gave up on what seemed like a hopeless cause. Running, Weekly, Fortnightly, Monthly and Major Golf Tournaments at Delaney's, Shenanigans, and then with us at Jameson's, where Mike set up JIGS (Jameson's International Golf Society). Wonderful memories of my lack of golf prowess and organization, compared to Mike's unflappable organizational skills, and people powers, matched with his over whelming patience, and generosity. Always with a mischievous twinkle in his eye. Apart from all the publicity that Mike so generously worked on every year for the Care4Kids Charity Drive, Mike also ran the Children's raffle at all the Care4Kids Charity Fairs. On the first Fair at The Royal Cliff Hotel the grand finale was with Mike on stage where he was always in his element drawing the prize numbers with all the children down the front hanging onto his every syllable, studying their ticket numbers. The number one prize was a gigantic Teddy bear and when Mike pulled out the top prize ticket the number was my eldest daughters Tracy who was about 9 years old at the time, Mike called her up on the stage, and presented Tracy with this Teddy bear that was twice her size. Daddy was called for. When I clambered up to join Mike and Tracy and of course Teddy on the stage, there were tears of joy, love, and happiness rolling down Mike's cheeks, a wonderful moment that I shall always cherish. My life has been hugely enriched by having had the pleasure of knowing Mike, and he will be sadly missed by all.
Mike Franklin’s funeral will be on Thursday 15th January at 3.30 p.m. at Wat Chaimongkol, South Pattaya Road

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Of course with the new year always brings new hope in the sports world. What a lot you have to hope for if you are British especially English. The constant worry of whether Reading will get promotion, and if they do let's hope its automatic, not those nerve racking play offs. I know the Landlord's nerves won't stand that let alone their Manager. Who after that will have to front up and confront the Bad Guys at golf with cohort Peter Bevis. Then there is the worrying situation with the English Rugby team. Don't start up a conversation on Cricket either. You would of thought they would of got their act together with the Australians coming over for the Ashes, I mean a decent wicketkeeper would be a start. All will be revealed over the coming months on all of the Jameson's screens from the giant screen in the sports room to the many plasma and smaller screens dotted around the pub.
My word there are a lot of photos this week aren't there? So we shall offer a prize of a Jesters Care4Kids T-Shirt for the person who can work out who is in the most photos this week. It's got to be either Malcolm Clare The Root of All Evil, or the world famous Mottman.
Very nice this week to meet Peter Makowski of Classic Rock fame, who is the guy who so generously donates all the signed Rock Memorabilia for our Care4Kids Auction and thereby raises hundreds of thousands of baht for the kids. Although Mark was talking to him for an hour before he realized who he was. My Thanks to Woody for setting that little meeting up.
Fond New Year's wishes of course go out to everybody, but in particular Tony and Iris Ritchie who supply the Berroca which keeps the Landlord going, Lisa Lurve who fills all our dreams, Dave Foden, and American Paul who introduced himself the other day.
Please enjoy this diary, I hope you enjoy the extended edition, normal service will now be resumed for the next 50 weeks due to the diligence of our lovely Secretary Orchid, with due diligence to good old MBMG.
Rony's Relatives Guy and family are in town for another week so I hope they have good time, they certainly did in Jameson's.
Regards and Best Wishes from Moo, Rony, and of course Kim.

Photos by Dez

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