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Travel Blogs from Kham Na Di, Thailand
Visas
I sit on the floor of our main room with paperwork all around me and plod through the laborious task of completing all of the nonsense questions that are asked on Jai's visa application form. The form is exactly the same as normal although this ...
Take George on holiday
... , buy a couple of cans of beer then go and pick up George to take him on holiday for an hour. All around Thailand you see endless spirit houses outside most properties but in Khamnadie you would be lucky to spot more than two or three. The ...
Hot shower !
Really cold last night and this morning and a hot shower sounds like a wonderful idea. I bike into Phon Thong, wearing long trousers and three shirts, and e-mail a Merry Christmas to everyone then straight to the electric shop. Back at the house I ...
Bank Robbery !!
A rude awakening this morning at 05:00 as Jai's mum wakes us up to tell us that the gas has finished. Thank you - just what I wanted to know in the middle of the night !! Into Phon Thong later this morning to open some bank accounts. We both ...
Cutting coconut trees again
Today is just about the half way point in our stay here this year and it another bright but fresh morning. This is great for me but everyone else seems to be freezing. Go to German John's as I had spotted a couple of coconut trees on his new land ...
Bye-bye bamboo
We had quite a heavy shower of rain about 04:30. Could really do with it waiting until we have left to take care of the trees for us when we cant. John visits. He is putting together a mat loom for his missus before we leave and I take him to ...
More crossed wires ...
Up at 3am to watch England 2 v 3 Holland. By breakfast time it is very cloudy and we have more rain. I check out the shed to find that the roof is fine and that the water is actually being sucked up through the concrete flooring. The ...
Cant get enough of it ...
With our rice safely gathered in, Jai volunteers her services to a nephew, Tia, who is taking care of sister Begats farm next door to hers. We bike out to the farm after breakfast and I join in for about an hour but decide that it is best if I ...
A quiet day ...
As I was wheeling the bike out first thing this morning the wheels didnt want to turn due tothe amount of dried earth that was caked all over it from our ride back from the farm last night. Out with the hosepipe and it gets a much needed wash. ...
Fin comes to visit
Fin comes to say hello just after we have finished breakfst which pleases Jai no end. The frying pan has to come back out for some little sausages with tomato sauce. My normally quiet cup of tea sat on the front porch after breakfast isnt going to ...
More trees ... eventually
Into Phon Thong this morning for the Saturday market and buy some new dishes for the kitchen. Have been trying for ages to get some nice china bowls but have had no luck so we have had to make do with plastic again. I buy some more seeds for the ...
Just another day
Bike into Phon Thong yet again this morning. Pass a field en-route that looks remarkably like rape growing. Have been told that the chap planted it a few months together with the plan to plough it in to the soil as a fertilizer when he next ...
Snakes !!!
We are giving the Phon Thong Saturday market a miss this week and it seems as though I have been biking into town every day this week. More digging and burning instead. Mid afternoon I spot a snake in the garden but it is only a couple of ...
Ideas for the farm
I have some ideas for something that I could do at the farm on my own so bike out there this morning to check things out and measure up some land. Will have a good think about things before running my ideas past Jai. Not so much an idea for ...
Quiet day
... be true !) :- "The Baci ceremony, also knows as “Su-kwan” is an indigenous Southeast Asian ritual. Predominant in Thailand and Laos this ancient and traditional ceremony is held for various occassions. “Su-kwan” can be ...
Visit to farm
Plant out some leeks, small onoins, garlic and yellow peppers this morning. Go to visit George and Wan for lunch and back mid afternoon. We are relaxing in the back garden when someone from the local ministers office comes to say that they ...
Time for mat making again
Upon waking up this morning Jai has decided that it is time for her to start making mats again. We dont have enough grass of our own yet so bike across the village to friend Wan's house to borrow her mat loom and to buy some grass from her sister - ...
C'mon you rice ...
At last the rice planting is finished. I am exhausted, honest ... We head out to the farm to check up on the results of my work before going into town. They completed work on the main road from the village into town last year and did a ...
Just another day ...
First thing this morning I visit the village hair salon for a tidy up before we leave. Into Phon Thong this morning to get some money from the ATM and am happy to find that one is working and that it actually has money. Spend some time at the ...
First day of winter ?
It actually feels a bit cold this morning for the first time this year - all relative of course. I bike into Phon Thong for an internet session then do a bit of shopping before heading back to the village. It is cremation day for the funeral party ...
Laundry and baking day
Jai catches up on the laundry after our trip south whilst I potter in the garden. Ride into Phon Thong for the Saturday market and a bit of shopping. The cupboards are bare so Jai sets about baking some cakes and a nice chunky loaf of ...
Too much beer
Go into Phon Thong this morning and drop Jai off at the hair salon whilst I go to the internet and bring this blog up to date. In the afternoon we go to Pakchong to visit German John and his missus for a quick beer and end up staying quite late, eating ...
Tree fellers
Well, tree planters actually but that wasn't the joke was it. Our front garden gets direct sun all afternoon and evening and we have tried several times to plant trees without success for a variety of reasons - neighbours standing on them being ...
Shopping for more seeds
Into Phon Thong again this morning for the Saturday market although by going on my own the prospect of having to walk around the stalls for an hour so doesnt raise its head. We still have room in the garden to fill up so I visit a seed shop to see ...
Its Sunday and its beer o'clock !
No water again this morning. Having dug a pit in the reservoir so that all of the shallow water pooled and could be pumped again the pump itself has died. Being a Sunday they cant get an engineer out from Phon Thong to fix it until Monday. I ...
Have to pay for electric !!
Over the last 5 years we have only paid for our electric on about three occasions. You are allowed to use 90 units each month without paying and we usually clock in about 88. On the occasions where we have had to pay we have ammassed the ...
Its raining
Wake up to unseasonable rain which continues to lash down until late morning. The road outside our place is like a river and the back garden has developed a couple of new holes where the water has drained into our neighbours gardens. If it is ...
Trip to 'Johns Bar'
Another day off today so just before 7:00 I am sat having my hair cut whilst Jai has the laundry well underway. About 10:30 I pick up George and we bike over to Pak Chong for a lunchtime beer with John. This neccesitates a very lazy afternoon ! ...
Work for party starts here
I take Jai to friend Wai's house in the neighbouring village and leave her for the day to help with preparations for next weeks ...
Laundry day today
With a break in the rain and a clear(ish) sky this morning a weeks or so's laundry is shouting out to be washed. My job is to fetch the water from the rainwater store we keep. This is our laundry water, showering water, toilet flushing water, ...