Happy New Year

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Jai goes to help a neighbour feed the monks for New Year ggod luck. Makes it sound like a trip to the zoo. I breakfast alone - ahh ! I am really tired this morning after a sleepless night disturbed by all of the karaoke and morlam blaring out around the village. I could hear four different sound systems at one point in the night. Jai's brother next door is pleased today as his son and wife, Pom and Eoo, have arrived from Bangkok for the week. At midday we go to George and Wans for beer and food and stay for the afternoon. Meet another English guy, Terry, who along with his wife Pim farm pigs a few miles the other side of Phon Thong. Get back to our place about 19:30 just as Jai's daughter Jiap is arriving out of the blue ...

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