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Published: July 16th 2017
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As we wont be here next week there is no need to go into the Phon Thong Saturday market this week.
It has rained a little overnight and this morning it is dark, cloudy with a wet mist hanging in the air ... pretty manky really.
We go to the farmto check on the charcoal which is becomming a daily mission. All three piles are still smouldering so we top up with rice husks and leave things till tonight when all should be hopefully dry.
About 18 months ago Jai lent some money to her sister in laws family in return for being ableto farm their land for two years. The deal was that if Jai provided the money her brother Padwould take care of the land and they would split the profits. It seemed like a good deal at the time but of course this never happened. Pad never did much work at the farm and to date there has been no crop of cassava to sell. I suggested to Jai that she bail out of the deal 6 months early and ask for her money back but I didnt fancy her chances. Pad agreed to take over the loan but
I still didn fancy his chances of rasing the money. I was amazed this morning, therefore, when sister in law Ram arrives at the house and returns Jai's money in full. Oh well, she didnt lose anything much and at least now she will know not to try something like this again.
Early afternoon I hear a lot of noise coming from next door at the bottom of our garden. Yai Dee has got the monkey in to pick her coconuts. A chap rides around the villages with a monkey on the back of his bike ... first time I saw one I thought he just had an ugly wife !! If you have coconuts to pick you stop him and he sends the mokey up the tree to pick them or kick them off. Looks like his motivation is easy, either he picks the coconuts or gets the sh*t kicked out of him ...
We have had another strange creature with us now for the best part of a month. I guess that it is a moth but I am not really sure what to class it as. It arrived just before Christmas and has been sat on a branch
of the tree by our back door ever since and hardly moves. For a couple of days around new year another one arrived but didnt stay too long. I guess it is some sort of mating thing but who knows ?
We go and sort out our 'taxi' to take us to the airport on Monday morning. I tell them the details of when I wanted to be picked up, what date, what time etc, but I am never too confident about the car actually turning up until it is actually parked out the front of the house and waiting for us.
Back to the farm after we have eaten and fill three more bags with completed charcoal. We are down to large logs now so Deu borrows a two man saw and we spend an hour, in the rain, cutting them down to manageable sizes to be fired. I say a two 'man' saw but to be fair Jai spent more time at the one end of it than I did !!
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