Welcome to my legless empire! 'Reed site three'
'Ours is not to reason why'
'Just drink beer and learn to fly'
------- The beer connoisseur's brew -------
Cheers and Welcome to
Legless Fool Reed Empire HQ 2011
Unofficial British ambassador in Asia
(This site is currently under reconstruction, sorry for any
inconvenience!)
Home and office of the
solitaire legless fool
HQ for John McMiken - Ian Reed Legless Empire Website Operations
(More legless now)
My legless fool group of websites are my personal websites, they are not commercial websites, just personal websites and as such, I feel that they should reflect the personality of the owner. I think that my websites should be a fairly unique experience for the viewer and I have put appropriate music on most of the pages to give them ambience. So if my websites do not fit into to your preconceived ideas of how a website should be, then please just accept that my sites are just:
Part of
this Legless Fool's Empire 
.
The holiday season is over now, so I have updated this website back into normal mode.
This new legless
fool website HQ command centre,
has now taken over from my previous Legless Headquarters website,
because it was wrongly shut down by the irresponsible web hosting service 'Fasthosts UK'. This new base zone is hosted by a trusted and
responsible web host www.names.co.uk and it will always give
access to and give an overview and information about all of my legless zones / websites / books / library of stories
/ Asian diaries and there is plenty of
room for lots more on here I hope in the future. As the site director,
head of operations and being an ex RAF officer, I do try to keep things
organised and in logical order, but also being ex British military, I
shall always keep certain things on a purely 'need to know' basis. This
website
is
a
consolidation
of
some
of my previous websites, Legless
in
Thailand and Ex
Post
Facto on one server, plus a lot more already and plans for
future expansion of my legless fool's world empire group
of
websites
are
in
hand,
money/funds
permitting. I am the builder of
this website and it is constantly under my personal construction and
development, not completely alone but with the help and company of some
beers and a few other intoxicating friends that give
me new ideas.
I had music on my original websites
and eventually I shall integrate some music onto this website too for
your enjoyment, relaxation, pleasure and maybe even
a little fun whilst you are on the web viewing my site. I hope that I
can take a short break for a holiday or even celebrate with a party
when it is finally completed, but there is still too much
internet and computer logic work for me to
do on here at the present time. I have to try and keep this site in a
fully operational state and I regularly implement new ideas to the
design of the site to try to maintain a good appearance and a high
profile online presence most of the time.
At the moment
my Asian diaries is the
section of this website that should progress steadily, I have been
writing a new page for these diaries virtually every day over the
previous months and it already consists of more than fifty pages. Even
though I am originally from England, UK, I have spent almost half of my
life in Asia. The diaries are about my life and times in Asia, not only
Thailand, but Singapore, Indonesia and South Korea too. Thailand is
obviously going to be the largest collection of these diaries and it is
the country that I am currently writing
about. The Asian Diaries pages are going to progress slowly, because I
have no deadlines to keep and I am always wary of making any stupid
decisions or mistakes by trying to rush the work. At my present rate of
production, the Asian Diaries will not be up to the present date for
about another four or five years, it is a major project because I have
more than 25 years to write about. I am a regular beer drinker and it
does help me to remember when I am writing my diaries, I usually write
at nights and I am always legless (Take my leg
off), because I don't use my legs to write and I keep my beer
handily in a fridge just one arm's length away, so you could say that
beer is my personal assistant with these diaries. 
I didn't use the name legless for
my websites out of choice initially, but because of an act of God, a
motoring accident, I am now literally legless, not legless drunk, it
certainly wasn't by choice, it was forced upon me. So in these legless
times in my life, I just use the word in my websites because it does
literally apply to me and describes me perfectly and people remember me
because I am absolutely and permanently legless now for life. I can
walk a little, because I do have a prosthesis for my amputated leg and
it works reasonably well, but the only times that I can walk easily and
run these days without constantly looking at the floor for surface
problems is in my daily beer-induced legless coma / sleep and dreams. 
In Thailand, I am just a legless,
alien, beer drinking recluse to the local Thai people here, they know
that I am not just a tourist or any problem to them and so they
generally just leave me alone to do my own thing .
In conclusion to my introduction and my last personal words on here:
Penang is my ultimate destination now and it is the place that I foresee that this legless fool will finally retire in and hang up his leg for good. Funds permitting, I shall try and relocate to Penang just as quickly as I possibly can, it is without a doubt my favourite place in the world, it is just so old-worldly, cosmopolitan, it is steeped in culture and it has lots of history and atmosphere. Penang is also a gourmet's paradise, the diversity of different ethnic food outlets available can suit everyone's taste and you do not have to travel very far to find what you like, just a fairly short stroll around the main roads and small back streets in Georgetown and you will surely find something ideal for your taste or fancy.
To me Penang is the epitome of the Far East as I know it and as I would like to know it and Lastly, but by no means least, the people in Penang are genuine people they are ever so friendly and inviting to visitors, unlike other Asian countries that I could mention!
August 2009:
I have just returned from a very long trip to the South of Thailand
with many cross border trips into Penang, Malaysia to look for future
accommodation and to help a good friend with her problems there. The
next step in my move to Penang, is moving to my new Thai base at Songkhla in the South of Thailand and funds
permitting, I should be permanently based there just as soon as I can.
I have already had a room there and I have already found
a relaxing, cheap place to drink beer in the evenings by the sea .
- Click on the banner or on this
text for Penang information
John McMiken 
The Legless
Fool hoping to retire in Penang.
Tribute page for a very special person in my life
The latest tales/stories on my legless group websites:
I am 'Legless in Thailand', Asia - My title, my book, my life, my never ending story.
About my new book and my Pink Diamond in Thailand
Take a tour around to see what's new before you go out and get legless again anytime
***Update***
As a personal thank you to everyone that has already purchased my book, I have decided to open a new folder on my Legless in Thailand website called the LIT Club which will be in operation very shortly and everyone that has bought my book may register with me and will be given a webpage in this new folder where you can display any information about yourself that you would like to completely free of charge. I shall also answer any questions and give free information about Thailand for any of my registered book readers/purchasers. For anyone that is interested in this new LIT Club please email me at: litclub@reedinter.co.uk
A personal tribute to one of the deceased characters from my book
My new Legless in Thailand e-book update page
My published book Legless in Thailand can be purchased here http://www.redleadbooks.com/leinth.html
John McMiken
Legless
Fool's Universe, The hermit's doodle art page
Legless in Vientiane,
Laos II: My second trip to Laos
Love
- The one-way road to ruin, dismay and heartache
Visa trip
to Penang/Emotional trip to Koh Lanta
The Thai whore
from hell / The girl that ruined my life
The legless fool websites group
The main legless fool links:
Legless fool solitaire 
Reed in Asia - 
Royal
Air
Force
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