How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
We are just beginning to get ready for heading off home! This trip to Christmas with the kids goes: Chiang Mai -Hong Kong-London-Surrey-Kew-Portsmouth-Caen-Passais-la Conception.
With any luck, Lucy (our intrepid fixer in France) will source the necessary Wild Boar (no jokes about why we need 2, please); otherwise we will turn to the good old "on-line" shopping answer, which will, no doubt, create chaos for our family,friends and neighbors again! (Humble apologies and many thanks to Claire and Derek for all the hassle they willingly went through in collecting my latest Ebay bargain!) They have just shared the very special news that they are now engaged! We are looking forward to hearing all the details very soon.
The photo features: (Including the photographer!: Bride to be's Mother, I assume?) The Bride to be, Bride's Father and 2 Bridesmaids; the core of the entourage to the Whit Sunday Islands, 2015!!
I think the LGC (little green car) looks fine, and so pleased to get a replica of the one I had to let go last year.
Thanks as always to Ian, Derek and others of the famous "BASH" team (Bacchanalian Appreciation Society,Higham.) for taking delivery and coordination of the collection etc! You're good guys really!
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| Goodbye beetles .........hello karaoke!! |
With a new year approaching I wanted to round off the years blogging with some of the pictures I haven't had space for yet and last minute events.
Any of my reader's who may be worried about the news they are hearing about political unrest here in Thailand can rest easy, The troubles are confined to areas in Bangkok, security here has been stepped up, but all is calm and peaceful at present in Chiang Mai.
One item of good news for us is that the beetle fighters have finally given up! They finished up with a karaoke night that started at 7.00 p.m. and blasted us at full volume until some time around 3.00 a.m. when I finally went to sleep.......only to be woken at 5.00 a.m. by a hammering on the door! Our Handyman had discovered a distraught young Romanian man running around the site, yelling for the Police.
His story was that he had been left by his friends still dancing at a night club in the middle of Chiang Mai, when he tried to leave he was asked to pay 8,000 Baht (£160) He argued so the Police came and told him he could either pay-up or take the consequences. He didn't pay so he was left to sort it out with the club staff. He says they beat him up , stole his phone and bundled him into a tuk-tuk (perhaps taking him to a ATM?) either way as he passed the Juniper Tree, he jumped out of the Tuk-Tuk and jumped over our gate!
When we telephoned the Tourist Police, they were mysteriously unable to speak English, half way through the story!
We ended up driving him across town to his hotel just to get some peace!
These two pictures of Chiang Mai by night where not taken on the way to his hotel, but during this year's Loy Kratong festival and were taken by Joachim, who came to help us with some jobs recently. He completely overhauled the tractor which is now sold, fixed a load of internal telephones; I am just doing the last 2 to get 100% coverage back. He also did a big clear up of the storage room and too many little repairs to innumerate.
The following pictures are a mix of the Staff Day Out to Sticky Falls, and other highlights of recent weeks. Most speak for them selves, but I'll still add a caption, which may, or may not, help elucidate!
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| Juniper Tree Pool by night |
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Muriel and John Davies Trustees of the Juniper Tree and previously,
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We visited Lilly's Noodle Shop with John & Muriel, Joan
gets an enthusiastic welcome! |
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| The Staff are ready for the off! |
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| Nader leads the way ! |
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Don spent nearly 2 weeks working on the tractor
with Joachim, he gardens for us but has hidden talents!
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| I look like "Billy no-mates"-but they all fled from the camera on my side of the party! |
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Somsack sets of to sell the tractor, at speed, we wouldn't want it to break
down on the way! It took him over an hour to drive it to the dealers. |
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| Don and Joachim at work, cleaning injectors. |
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Whilst John was here we celebrated 13 years of JTCM, we released 13
sky-lanterns simultaneously! |
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The staff insisted on an air-con mini bus, not a song-thew,
and who am I to argue! |
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| Khamsi, maintenance man, brought the family! He drove his smart new truck |
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| Laughter was heard all day, we had a ball! |
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Our staff know how to make a picnic, no soggy sarnies or pork pies. Do
you like the look of the giant pork scratchings though? |
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| Khun Phet enjoying a day with less cooking! |
When we telephoned the Tourist Police, they were mysteriously unable to speak English, half way through the story!
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