Farang: Thailand through the eyes of an ex-pat

I read this book concurrently with [b:Bangkok Days 10027434 Bangkok Days Lawrence Osborne https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348433623s/10027434.jpg 6706904]by Lawrence Osborne, as I felt I needed something more gritty to get me through this read.The author is a 55 year old Brit (who lived a lot of his life in Australia), who lives, retired in Bangkok with his 30 year younger Thai wife and two young children.This book is best described as a series of harmless newspaper columns from a foreigners-eye-view of living in Bangkok. It comes across as very grandfatherly, very sanitised, and generally quite amusing - mostly because the author is not shy about pointing out all of his own mistakes and misfortunes. He is, in fact, the butt of most of the stories.Two and a half stars, rounded up, but only just.