Our local Wat (temple)

Pictures of Nong (dad) and Doot (uncle) at the Wat and a wall painting that Paa and I sponsored, though strangely only Paa gets a mention on wall ....

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Fishing near the House

Here are a few shots of Rooum and Nong (Paa's dad) fishing in Rooum's pond near my house. The children are collecting 'salad' to eat with the evening meal.

Some views of the house

The house is really great inside, al the floors are tiled with cream tiles (mock stone in kitchen) and the bathrooms are (white and) blue and green. The showers now work though I do like a cold shower now to be honest, it is very hot mostly and hot at the other times. Outside I have had a pond made down one side of the house there is no gutter on that side of the house so rain falls like a curtain into the pond when it does rain. There are about 8 different kinds of fish in the pond, some from the rice fields and ponds and some goldfish type and others that were bought. On the back I have an open concrete post and straw roof structure, with seating and a hammock. The next job is the garden and gates on the front and back, though I am not going to rush :-)

Chicken (gai or conkers)

The children sometimes play a game called chicken (in Thai that is Gai). Chicken grass seems to grow in our garden and the children of the village collect it. It is a strong grass with a large knot at the end. One child holds their grass out and the other hits it with their piece of grass, the winner is the one with grass knot still on grass stem, I am sure that I used to play something similar!

Rice Harvest

Everyone around here seems to have had an excellent harvest this year. Our fields have yealded 32 sacks of rice, after drying on the road. I cant say that I actually did that much work. Paa's parents laboured, I drove the truck a little bit. Everyone in the village seems to help other people when there is work to be done, we have been out sweeping rice and bagging it up for people.

My Buffalo and Cow

Here are some pictures of the buffalo etc in my garden. Paa's dad looks after them behind his house, but puts them out to graze in my garden sometimes.