Lottie goes to School

Even though she is only 2 and 1 month, Lottie has started school. It is a private school in Buriram, which teaches Thai and English. £30 per month including lunch. It also has its own indoor swimming pool. It looks very nice, cartoon characters all over the walls, and English and Thai wall charts in every room.

Owl

I arrived home from golf to find we had an young owl, Paa's dad and others had found it up a tree, and because Lottie loves pictures of owls, he thought he would bring it back for her. I obviously made him take it back immediately, which he did. When we got back to the village I found out that there were 3 young owls, the other 2 were still in the village, taken by people who thought they looked nice! Unfortunately they are probably now dead, but the locals dont seem to think there is anything wrong in what they did.

Lottie's 2nd Birthday

For Lottie's 2nd Birthday we had a buffet party at the house, most of the village came. Lottie was asleep for a lot of the party. Everyone had a good time except my wallet.

Chalermkarnchana University

Outside Surin on the road to Prasat there is a new university being built. It looks like a French building from a few centuries ago. I suppose they wanted people to notice it, and I certainly did, which is why I have posted a picture of it.

Phanom Sawai Forest Park

On the way back from a trip to the Cambodian border, we went to see Phanom Sawai Forest Park. An out-of-city attraction 14km south of Surin. It is signposted but there is no information for the visitor to read, however, we rang the bells, and Paa prayed at "Buddha's Footprint". There wereancient lava flows in the woods as well.

Honey

Paa's dad is a great tree climber, fisherman, and food finder. Occasionally we will see him collecting ants, fruit or salad from nearby trees. This day he came back with honey. The bees were very small, but the honey was lovely. The first time I have had honey from a honey-comb.

Drying the Rice

This year we had a new helper to dry the rice, and drive the little tractor. It was a reasonable harvest in our area theis year, unfortunately many other areas had flooding this year.