Cambodian Traffic, hooting, buffalos, monkeys

Problem
Siem Reap has no traffic lights.

Answer
If your tuk-tuk overtakes another tuk-tuk which overtakes two side-by-side scooters and you encounter another tuk-tuk veering straight towards you, simply toot three times as a warning. Toot-toot-toot.

As a passenger you stop worrying after the first four minutes. You are too busy holding onto your hat.

It's a bit like India. If a bike wants to turn left on a four lane dual carriageway, then it veers left. If your tuk-tuk wants to do a U-turn, it does a U-turn.

White horned oxen and grey water buffalo munch along and mooch along in the fields beside the road. Occasionally a four legged friend, such as a dog or buffalo, decides to amble across.

As you drive through the cool dappled forest towards the temples you see people sleeping in hammocks slung between the trees. Local children are not watching TV; children are sitting in groups mesmerised, watching monkeys scampering along the grass.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

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Appreciating Colour - red and green signs in contests

Problem
In Toastmasters Clubs the speech timer uses red and green boards to show the green you've spoken enough and can go on or go and leave the stage and red for you've reached the time limit and must stop.

Traffic lights are relatively easy to distinguish because the top one of the three lights is red. the middle one is yellow. The lowest one is green. But if you turn the lights sideways on a desk instead of standing them upright, the colour blind speaker loses the vertical clue.

However, people who have red green colour blindness cannot distinguish colour boards.

Answers
At HOD Toastmasters Club in London, England, at the request of a previous president, who was colour blind, we now print the word green in black on the green card, and the word red in black on the red card.

Author
Angela Lansbury, author and speaker.