Well it’s been another eventful week here in sunny Thailand, well sunny last week anyway. With all the flooding up north and another tsunami in Indonesia, luckily the worst we’ve has here in Southern Thailand is some heavy rain.
My son Harry continues with all his tricks, I don’t think he could be anymore naughty if he tried, after putting an ice cube down his grandma’s back and taking a dump on the balcony, this morning he got up early and did some heavy modifications to a computer program I was writing. That will teach me to live my computer unlocked; it took about 30 minutes to find all extra characters he’d added.
Sarina my beautiful daughter get lovelier every day, now that the dogs recovered from her illness Sarina has finally stopped nagging about taking the dog to the hospital. It was her third birthday the other week and had quite a good party with our close family, the only person missing was my Dad, but he sent her a nice birthday card which I think she liked more than the presents she got. I managed to nip across to Tesco’s and buy a Barbie set and a nice, proper birthday cake, I was in a bit of rush and picked up the first birthday candles I saw, unfortunately they were the magic ones that re-light themselves. Sarina was not impressed; Harry joined in the blowing and sprayed the whole cake with spit.
We are now moving into the dry season, so we are all getting our beach gear ready. With a bit of look I plan to take the family to one of the many islands just off the coast here, for a few days well deserved holiday. I also need to buy a new paddling pool for the kids, I usually put it up on the balcony, it’s nice in the afternoon when the sun’s moved round a bit and there is some shade.
On the work front still as busy as ever on the internet, had a couple of offers this past month, but unfortunately both in Bangkok which I have no desire to go there. I am actually turning work down at the moment, but should get most of my backlog cleared by Christmas, in the New Year I have two projects of my own that should slowly start to bring in the cash. With a bit of luck we are planning to move up to Chiang Mai early next year, I have some very good friends up there and the cost of living is very similar to here. To be honest the rain here is starting to get on my nerves, it’s seem like months and months of endless rain. Chiang Mai is a lot dryer, cooler and healthier, and I am not really that bothered about the beach.
It’s always been my greatest desire to take my family back to England, but I think now with all the problems in Europe I won’t bother, I read the News and it seems the whole country has become full of criminals, child abusers and loud mouthed thugs. The only person I’ve got back there now is my Dad, and I know he understands, with a bit of look if things continue to pick up I will be able to go for a holiday there within the next 18 months, rent a cottage in Devon and go and see Dad for a couple of days. I really consider myself lucky, I’m not stuck in some crappy job in England, just waiting for retirement having to get up on cold mornings and drive to work, or get public transport. I really enjoy the work I do, I try my hardest to do the best job possible and I always have my family here. Although I complain about the weather here, it’s not that bad, I wear shorts and t-shirts all year round and I don’t own any socks!
Well that’s all for now, the wife’s on her way with some excellent food from a local restaurant and it’s time for me to go and see Mr. Chang (Beer) J
