Bar & Restaurant, Pattaya, Thailand - Kim Fletcher Landlord Jameson's the Irish Pub


New Diaries are uploaded around midnight on Thursday, local time, here in Pattaya by the Landlord Kim Fletcher.
Diary No. 225 Week of 29th June 2009 - 5th July 2009 Updated 9th July 2009
The Great Marathon Run of 2009 Landlord Kim Fletcher in his infinite wisdom has decided to do this year's Pattaya Half Marathon on Sunday 19th July. Kim is not the best known person in Pattaya for his sporting prowess, or for getting up at 3.30 a.m. (Often known to still be up at this time, but not just getting up on a Sunday morning). Anyway the Race is afoot as they say. Deborah Philbrook, and Ron Keeley have stepped into the breach, and have taken on the joint role of Trainers and Sponsorship Collectors. Kim will be doing the Half Marathon in aid of the Jesters Care4Kids Charity Drive. There's a space for donating on line on this page, plus the Sponsorship Forms are downloadable from this page or you can sign up in the Pub. The other ways you could help are to actually go with Kim on the day, (a chance that Pagey very firmly turned down). Or grab a Sponsorship Form from the Pub and get some more sponsorship for us. Every little bit helps, and remembers Kim has actually got to finish in the allotted time to have to make you pay up your money. You can see all the details on this page. Well the Half Marathon is not many moons away now, and the Landlord is in training. But he certainly did not know how far over 21 kilometers is. In fact I nearly fainted just seeing how far along Sukhumvit you have to go, and what's worse is you have to back up as far as the Bangkok Pattaya Hospital before you can come back on yourself. Still it's not as bad as the actual Marathon Runners who seem to have to run half way to Bangkok first before doing a big U-Turn via Chang-Mai. Please help me raise some money for Care4Kids for this people have already been very generous, and a little Committee has formed to try and help me raise the money. Young Steve Page is definitely the President good man in a crisis our Pagey, and just the man for this job, Right Hand man to Pagey is obviously RayC with some help from Geordie Derek (Hello Mottman), Deborah Philbrook has taken the Thankless task of Treasurer (Lets face it would you like any of the rest of us to handle the money, Deborah also put the whole gambit on Facebook). Judi McNamara is a very good publicity agent for the walk, and my good mate Ron Keeley has done a wonderful on line website for the Marathon (Half) which you can connect to on the left hand side of this website as you look at it. Every little bit I can collect for the Jesters Care4Kids Charity Drive 2009 will make me even more determined to finish the Marathon. Every hundred baht counts, as we have found out many times before, a lot of small amounts add up to one great big amount. I would like to Thank now all those that have already donated, and I will publish a list of those that have donated next week. Right now back to the training. The Sponsorship Form This weekend sees the return of the Formula One season after a little break. This should see Dr. Iain Corness happy, as he takes his perch in the Jameson's sports room for the Race starting at 7.00 p.m. on Sunday 12th July. Iain normally gets to Jameson's about 5.30 p.m. to avail himself of the fresh Carvery (375 baht as much as you can eat including Roast Turkey, Roast Leg of New Zealand Lamb, Roast Beef, Baked Honey Glazed Ham, beautiful Thai Roast Pork with Apple Sauce and plenty of Crackling, Vegetarian Lasagne, nine different Veggies, three sorts of Potato, Soups, Bread, Prawn Cocktail, and an enormous Salad Bar). Iain normally has a nice Salad, then a bowl of Soup, then a huge plate of Carvery, before the race, and then just has a few more Pit Stops at the Carvery during the Race. A splendid evening. If the Landlord is lucky he will be watching the Cricket on one of the TV's. For a full round up of our sporting calendar for the weekend please look up our sports schedule. If you live in Pattaya please remember your Used books, DVD's, and CD's for our Used Book Stall for the Children's Fair, Jesters Care4Kids Charity Drive which is on the 13th September. Please bring your books as soon as possible to give us time to sort them out. That's all for me this week, back to Training! See you hopefully soon. Kim, Rony and Moo.
Ian (Lady Di) Harrington arrives for Friday night The Youth Policy in action on Friday night Young (Pagey) Steve, and RayC Mackenzie Strachan with Mum Geaw Kim and Bjorne and the inevitable B52's The serious business of the Rugby Starts The Youth Policy The Mighty Sam Peebles (Hello Jill) Paul, and Pagey Alan Bolton and Family A Happy Group from Bat Beer Bar led by Martin Kevin Greene and Paul Graeme The new look Jameson's from the outside. With our new Tiger Lite Sign, with Dang our headman outside standing proudly underneath	Young Paul Strachan of PMTV and Antoine our Exclusive Russian Representative It's all action in the sports room for Andy Murray's show down It's Saturday night and the crowd gathers with Young Steve (Pagey) Page, Kevin Johnstone, The Mighty Sam Peebles, Kim in his Bob Davis British Lions Rugby Shirt (Bob Davis will finally arrive back in Jameson's for his favoured Singha Beer on Wednesday the 15th July). Derek McTighe (a rare shot of Derek with out Sa) and Victor The grip of Charity. The new Jesters Care4Kids Wristbands the height of fashion in Pattaya. With the present hot season you do need a wristband or two, so what better way of getting one and doing good for The Jesters Care4Kids Charity Drive than buying a Wristband. All profits got to the Charity Drive Kim shakes the hand of Mickey (T-Shirt and Wristband) Price upon delivery of the wristbands now on sale in Jameson's Oop's Lola hates it when it's all separate bills. Notice how nice Lola looks in her Jesters Care4Kids T-Shirt Welcome back to Hoser who came in with Blowfly. (Hello to The Root of All Evil, Malcolm Clare) Mr. and Mrs. Derek and Sa McTighe with Victor Mike and the boys enjoy Breakfast
The new Nova Gold Hotel gets nearer competition every week. A lot of the interior work is now going on. But I think I will wait for Rony to come back before donning a hard hat, and having a mooch about. Happy Birthday to Rony by the way on the 12th July. God Star sign Cancer. Did I mention the Landlord is a Cancer and will be having his Birthday Party on Saturday July 25th. That is if he survives the Half Marathon The beautiful wall for the Temple (Wat Tai Hee). Just outside Jameson's. As you can see the work is pains taking, and involves a lot of patience. But the artists remain very friendly to all who pass by Thank you Neil Sandilands “The new fantastic album by Tracie Hunter Superego” reviews by Mott the Dog next week”
Kim Fletcher and Jameson's thoughts turn to the Jesters Care4Kids Charity Drive 2009 The Jesters Care4Kids Charity Drive is coming up very quickly. Let me just remind you of the dates for the main events on Sunday 13th September 2009 is the Jesters Care4Kids Charity Fair at the Diana Driving Range and Resort, which this year looks like it is going to be even bigger and better this year than last (if that is possible). Kevin Mitch once again stepping into the breach, and doing all the organization in his usual brilliant military precision style. Now whilst talking about the Fair can I also remind everybody that Jameson's amongst other things, has a Used Book Stall at the Fair run by Judi McNamara. The Used Book Stall is always great fun and also raises a nice lot of money for the kids. It is simple logic. (A) You kindly donate to us all your old used books, which can be dropped off at Jameson's or TQ any time, the earlier the better so we can get them sorted. (B) You come to the Fair, and then buy a lot of good books at a cheap price, come early for the best selection. (C) We give all the money we raise to Kevin who hands it on to the Care4Kids Charity Drive. Easy. The next event after the Fair is the Jesters Care4Kids Charity Party Night at Jameson's on Saturday 19th September 2009 which will feature Paul Jackson as our compeer, Music from Mike Gerrard, Rick and Harpic Bryant, and to bring us all to a Rockin' close Pop's Pattaya All Stars and assorted guests. On that night there will also be the arrival of Eric and Robert from their marathon Charity Bike Ride always an amazing feat of endurance, the climax to the Raffle and the fantastic Jesters Care4Kids Charity Auction. The Auction Site is up and running, with lots of good things up there already, all you have to do is click on the link on the left hand side of this page and you will be whisked into Ron Keeley of World of Wine Auction Site, there is plenty to look at and you might even fancy putting a bid in yourself. Plenty already have. There are plenty of ways of helping the Jesters Care4Kids Charity Drive 2009, Obviously by coming to the Fair, and the Party Night, making bids on the Auction Site, buying Raffle Tickets, buying T-Shirts, taking a Bumper Sticker for your car, taking and reading one of our brochures and showing them to other people (all available at Jameson's or TQ). If you would like to know some more right now please click on the link on the right hand side of the page for the Jesters Care4Kids and you will go on a journey to see all about us the website. It is regularly updated and is run by our Chairman, Lewis (Woody) Underwood, and our Webmaster David Smith, a very good Charity, run by some wonderful people, to help those less fortunate than others. Please click this link - Jesters Charity Drive Corporate Letter 2009
	Cheers, see you at the Bar *Kim* landlord@jamesons-pattaya.com
Please contact Mr. Kim or Reception at Nova Park ........ Tel: (038) 415 304 - 8

New Diaries are uploaded around midnight on Thursday, local time, here in Pattaya by the Landlord Kim Fletcher.