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Travel Blogs from Ban Kham Na Di, Thailand
The card school expands
I have been left a pile of sand of gravel that was not needed just outside the front gate and I start to move it to the back of the house in slow time. Small bucket by small bucket so that I am not carrying anything heavy. This is going to ...
Tiles or holiday ?
Into Phon Thong with Jai this morning for some shopping. Whilst in town I price floor tiles for the new shed. Am deciding wether or not to tile the floor with the money I was thinking of using for a short break to Khon Kaen at the beginning ...
Odds and ends
In a bit of mother and daughter bonding Jai and Jiap spend a couple of hours this morning baking currant buns and cakes. I cut down a couple of pappaya trees that have stopped fruiting for this year and are now too big and are well past their best. ...
Happy Christmas
Up at 05:00 which can never be a good way to start Christmas day or any other day come to that. I turn on the fairy lights, aahh, Jai starts the rice steaming whilst I brew a cuppa then she goes out for a run with the lady next door. Yes, I ...
Bananas
After a very windy night I discover that our banana tree with the nearly ripe bananas has been blown down and is now lying amongst my cabbage. I cut up the tree and rescue the fruit which willnow have to ripen indoors. Jai gets a phone call to go ...
Motorbike maintenance
Finally going into Phon Thog this morning to make the bike legal - well, nearly legal. After tax and insurance we stop at the Honda dealers in town where we bought the bike for them to give it the once over. I had told Jai to find out three ...
Its swimming day it must be Thursday
One of the ladies who lives(d) up the road has just died and Jai goes off to spend the morning helping out. I head out to the farm and spend a few hours wandering around. In the afternoon go into Phon Thong for a brief internet session efore biking ...
Out to the farm
A bit chilly this morning on the bike into town. Come home to find Jai's son sleeping on the floor where he stays for pretty much all of the day. In the afternoon I bike out to the farm with a mat, pillow and book and spend a quiet solitary ...
'Make a monk day' again !!
Its the silly season for boys aged about 15 who have just started the school holidays to become a monk for a few days. The general idea is well intentioned but it is always accompanied by a 3 day party with continuous loud music and endlessbeer and ...
How much does it cost to get a new mayor ?
... . I get back to the house to find a small party in progress at Ang and Deu's next door. It turns out that someone has come to negotiate a marriage with their eldest daughter Di. The price is being discussed now over copious beer and whisky !! ...
New shoes ...
Still no visa has come for Jai and with it being the weekend there seems little chance of it arriving in the next couple of days. It usually comes back in about 5 days so this is far and away the longest we have had to wait. I just hope that ...
Bus trip to That Phanom
There is an outing from the village today to visit the annual temple fair at That Phanom, about 3 hours away from here. I tried to get Jai to go with a friend but she didnt want to go unless I went as well. We have been before and the thought ...
Busy in the kitchen
We attempt to make some burger rolls this morning using a recipe I acquired from the internet and also to bake a currant cake. Both were varying degrees of failure ! The rolls are edible but small, misshapen and harda nd the first time that ...
Back into the usual routine
It is a bit fresher this morning as I bike into Phon Thong for a long internet session. A bit of shopping then back to the village. Out to the farm this evening to give everything a ...
RAIN !!
Wake up at 03:00 to the sound of rain on the roof. Rush outside and connect up some roof guttering to one of our rain butts. It was nearly empty and Jai wanted to clean it before it refilled with this years rain but this is too good a chance ...
A ride without local knowledge
Out to the farm directly after breakfast where I eventually hit Friday's taget, make a start on nect weeks and have a large fire. Sunday is supposed to be a day off and a visit to John's for a lunchtime beer or two so when I get back to the house it is a ...
Lazy day
Awake with the alarm just after midnight and watch England 1 v 0 Spain. An almost sleepness night was not a good way to follow too many beers but I am surprised to wake with only a slight trace of a headache. Jai is not so fortunate ! ...
Serendipity
Strangely I had just read that serendipity was the old name for Ceylon, Sri Lanka - not a lot of people know that. The first time I had decided to come into the internet at Phon Thong and I find a number of e-mails from friend Mike the latest telling me ...
Still loose ...
Tummy still not settled down so have to visit the local shop for the local remedy this morning. There must be something about these tablets that targets the right place as they always seem to work pretty quickly. Some of Jai's friends visit and ...
What a fun day
Still not feeling 100% I bike into Phon Thong this morning meaning to guy our flight tickets back to the UK for next spring. Spend ages on the internet filling out all of the flights and passenger details, even allocating seats on all four flights, ...
A light at the end of the tunnel
Feel decidedly better this morning but still ache everywhere as though someone gave me a good kicking last night - perhaps they did ! Things doget better as the day passes and as I eat something. In the afternoon we go to visit Jai's brother ...
Baking Day
Saturday sees a big street market in the nearest town of Phon Thong. It makes the town really busy and we tend to avoid going in today. Jai has decided that there is a few things that she wants that we can only get on market day so we are ...
Happy Birthday King
Today is the King's birthday so banks etc are closed today but life in the village goes on as usual, except that the schools are closed. I go for a haircut and must now weigh a couple of kilos less ! After lunch I take Jai and neighbour Ang to Wan's ...
All is safely gathered in ...
They are supposed to be coming to the farm early afternoon to thresh our rice but Jai is still off to the farm first thing after breakfast to start preparing food for them all to eat. Another duck bites the dust. Instead of worrying about ...
Return of Planet Stupid
I find out this morning that the young girl who is to be married next March 'sold' for 80,000Baht-about 1600GBP. We have another quiet day around the house until we head out to the farm in the late afternoon. Go to bed early and sit watching the 5-a-side ...
Catching up with things around the house
We have negelcted things around the house this last week so decide to spend this morning getting back up to date. I start up a bonfire to buirn the house rubbish then cut the hedge across the front garden and clear the path edges a bit. This ...
Fried breakfast
We nearly always have a fried egg on toast for breakfast. Recently I found some sausages at the local market and not wonderful and made from chicken they are OK. We are also cropping handfuls of tomatoes from the garden each day so ourr ...
Lost !!
Have just dropped Jai off in a neighbouring village where a nephew and family live to discuss getting hold of some rubber trees as we want to plant one of her big fields with rubber when we are in England this summer. Thought that I knew the way ...
Guilty of a 'Planet Stupid' again !!!
Last night I wanted to quickly chill a bottle of warm beer so placed it in the freezer compartment. You've guessed - I forgot about it. Came to move it this morning to find that the bottle had neatly snapped in two but fortunately there wasnt ...
Shopping trip
Up at 02:00 this morning to watch Man Utd v Berne then asleep again till 07:00. Wake to a dry morning but by the time breakfast has finished it has started raining. They are saying that this is the wettest year here for over 30 years. ...