There’s Fungus on the Mushrooms, a biography from Mike Lord

Please help us welcome Mike Lord to the blog. Mike is here to share his biography, There’s Fungus on the Mushrooms. Welcome, Mike! We are all excited to hear more about There’s Fungus on the Mushrooms.

About There’s Fungus on the Mushrooms:

There’s Fungus on the Mushrooms – or, if something can go wrong it will

This is the biography of a man who spent almost his entire working life in sub-Saharan Africa and then South and East Asia.

Mike Lord was born in London within the sound of Bow Bells, just as the WW2 was about to explode.  He was evacuated to the country as a small boy and then was brought up in Berkshire.  His family moved to various places, including four years in Singapore from 1948, which involved the Maria Hertzog riots, and a family holiday in Hong Kong, all of which had a curious effect on his later life.

Mike’s work was working with poor farmers in remote villages to help them improve their crops and animals, but rather than work for a short time directly with farmer families it was found to be more effective to facilitate this work with the local government departments, who hopefully could continue this work and expand to all villages in their jurisdiction.

Mike now lives and works in Vietnam.  His work in Asia included some hot-spots like the Swat valley in Pakistan, and Sri Lanka during the war against the LTTE!  Mike’s last project in Vietnam was concerned with Climate Change, but now he has retired and for the last four years is even busier writing and publishing eBooks!

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About Mike Lord:

Mike Lord was born in London within the sound of Bow Bells, just as the WW2 was about to explode. He was evacuated to the country as a small boy and then was brought up in Berkshire. His family moved to various places, including three years in Singapore from 1948, which had a curious effect on his later life. Mike has spent the vast majority of his working life in developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, and now lives and works in Vietnam.

Mike likes to read the history of the various countries in which he is working, and particularly in Asia. He discovered that the Pashto language of Yusufrai Pathans, in the Swat valley in the North West Frontier province in Pakistan, was first translated into English by a medical officer in the British Army in Afghanistan in the late 19th century, and that in Ceylon the Mahawansa was discovered by a British colonial officer, who was stationed in a provincial town in the early 20th century. The Mahawansa contains a great deal of the written history, not just for Sri Lanka, but also for a large part of northern India, and a great deal of mythology from the sub-continent.

Mike has lived and worked in Vietnam since 1997, where he lives in a provincial city with his wife, and has constant stream of visitors from the families of their seven adult children. He has just published a novel featuring the beautiful wife of the 18th century Emperor Quang Trung, who is still revered all over Vietnam.

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