Geo: 16.3833, 103.933At 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 pretty good job but left strectches of road as they were. With the rains coming again even the new road is getting damaged overnight and every time we go have to be careful to avoid new holes that are large enough to swallow a motorbike or three. The old road is dreadful !!... read more

Geo: 16.3833, 103.933Am now celebrating brithdays of people I don't even know. George visited to ask me to share a beer or three with him to mark his son Gabriel's 25th birthday. He is actually in Hawaii working at the large observatory there.... read more

Geo: 16.3833, 103.933Returning from the farm after collecting Jai this evening I had a close encounter with a chicken. Moral from this story is that when a chicken and a motorbike meet head on the chicken usually loses !! I am sure that I saw him run away whilst checking the rear view mirror, well, fairly sure ... I am having a chicken's head painted onto the tank of the bike just in case.... read more

Geo: 16.3833, 103.933No, not a cake but some golf. Get up in the middle of the night (02:00 -04:00) to watch the final round of The Open from St Andrews.... read more

Geo: 16.3833, 103.933Today we stole 2 papaya trees from Jai's brother next door and have rehoused them, for their own protection, in our back garden where we can nuture them.Jai has employed 15 people today to plant her rice at the farm using the money that we 'collected' whilst in Gloucester. By the end of the day about half of the fields were complete and she was well pleased.... read more