Khan Had Cha-am

Poon Suk street got us thinking about Dr Prunesquallor. Was he a Mervyn Peake or a Kenneth Horne character? We think Peake.

Just back from the Thai boxing. The Brit guy won his bout. The best fight was between two 10 year olds - pure aggression, no dancing or politicking around. First time either of us have been to see ...

... come for a swim tomorrow but we will wait and see.... Did not eat in the end, only drank lots of wine and beers and the hotel is not the cheapest place! Had some dances as did Phil and Mam.....enjoyable night It is Phils birthday on the 11th August so we agreed to book in another night and have a meal with the whole family

... re so heavy that they crash through the roof. There are three mango holes in the roof right now. When it rains, rainwater falls in through the mango holes. So far the mangoes have only hit the table and floor, and I hope they don't hit a person or a dog. (We have 22 pet dogs at the center). 4. The lack of hot water. It's fine for the showers--I've gotten used to cold showers--but we don't have ...

... water, only to have the gibbon watch me complete the task, jump down to the bucket, and completely pour it out right in front of me, watching how I react. Really, sometimes I wonder if this is what parents feel like. Quiet, peaceful, sleepy gibbons are sometimes nicer to deal with. :) In other exciting news, yesterday I was preparing the food for Primates 1, and I was on the floor, leaning over to put mango slices ...

... This was impressive. We drove up a little mountain that was full of macaques. Right before the mountain, I had said, "Oh, look! There's a macaque on the top of that house." We all looked. Seconds later, we were on the road up the mountain, and there are more wild macaques everywhere you look. Lots of babies, too. At the top of the mountain there's this massive cave that you can walk down into. Bats live there and if we were there right now ...

... new matching do's and orange robes. On the fourth day, having checked out a couple of nearby guest houses we announce that we would leaving after dinner. When it came time to go there were lots of hugs, no tears mind, and farewells and gifts from a couple of the kids before we jumped in the back of the pickup for the last time (well not quite) and martin dropped us at out new home. Typically Dada had gone walk about with Harrish, Tippawan and the other older ...

... with a texas swagger. he was a cool dude and a man of few words. i don't believe he smiled once or said one word in the whole of the nine holes we played together and. anyway, here is how it went. hole number 1, 369 yards, par 4: i got in a great drive but was still about 10 yards shy of cowboy. about 150 yards to go and i landed left of the green. 3-on and 2-putt for bogie. the cowboy went over the green on his second shot, and his chip did not make it to ...

... 1/366868285/ , http://www.flickr.com/photos/*zlij*mil0 1/362409259/ It w*s next onto L*ng K*wi in the north of the country for some t*x free beer, be*ch *nd s*nd. The town w*s quite dis*ppointing *nd just intensified my desire to get b*ck to th*il*nd *s soon *s possible, but on the whole i h*d *n enjoy*ble few d*ys sitting on the be*ch, chillin *t night, visiting the coolest toilet in the world *nd going on one re*lly cool bo*t trip *round the is*lnds ...

... had broken some temple rules and these incidents were reported to the abbott by a fellow novice. the abbott reprimanded takilo whereupon ta-kill-o picked up an iron bar and killed the abbott and the snitch and then he set their bodies on fire. i have read a lot of stories about buddhist monks in thailand and in cambodia killing each other with iron bars. i can't help but wonder why they keep iron bars in temples. shouldn't we have iron bar control laws here? or is there a ...

... if I'm too happy about this situation, though. I'm working right next door at an organization whose goal is to help end the exploitation of animals in the tourism industry. It doesn't make any sense to me to have a sister organization whose goals are in complete opposition. I've voiced my concerns and have been told that the elephants are much better off than they were before, and that the money they will bring in ...