John Mitchell

As I stood at the rail of the RV Pandaw IV looking towards Katha in Burma, I wondered how George Orwell must have felt living in tbhisremote Upper Irrawaddy river port.

Love poem

Ted lined the five of us up and asked if we had each had a bog. Unbeknown to me, this meant “have you each had a shit this morning…”

“Fuck!” I thought, as her tongue speared into my mouth. “What the hell!”

Foreign languages are beyond me….

When I started my public relations business more than 20 years ago, I shared an office in a palatial building that housed an advertising agency.

When I was about 12, I lived in the Adelaide foothills suburb of Mitcham in a rambling old house that was just across the road from historic St. Michael’s Anglican Church. It had a towering sq…

Make me laugh challenge – A bad attack of diarrhea….

As the Pandaw IV was hit by a powerful wind of up to 150 kph the vessel suddenly heeled at an angle of 35 to 40 degrees. It wasn’t a good sign…

"...somehow Mitchell has managed to score and amazing 10% – the lowest mark I have ever given in all my years of teaching….”

A tailor-made shirt is not always what the advertisement says it is….

The chemist said in his bloody loud voice: "Your dog has diarrhea?"

I don’t want to get old, and I don’t want my only topic of conversation to be my illnesses.

I took up photography by accident….it was my excuse for not becoming boored while travelling solo in Indo China.

Dusk in Assam at the border of India and Bhutan is like being halfway to heaven.

As I stood at the rail of the RV Pandaw IV looking towards Katha in Burma, I wondered how George Orwell (aka Eric Blair) must have felt.

Nothing is worse than arriving at a strange airport in a foreign country after a lengthy flight. I seem to always make a complete hash of it.

I was in Cambodia in 2006 touring the temples of Angkor. My guide Ree, was staring at me with a look of utter horror on his face. I was smiling broadly before the penny dropped, and realised I …