Category Archives: Project update


Bun Tai Bulletin 19: House walks down street

Dear All,
The other morning I was standing outside the door of my house, drinking my normal strength coffee, when I saw a house walk down the street accompanied by some extraordinarily amourous grunting from the 30 or 40 poor souls who were carrying it. Instead of building a new house, the family had obviously decided […]

Bun Tai Bulletin 16: The Elephant and Coffee

Dear All,
This morning, whilst doing something or other on my computer and drinking my coffee, I saw an elephant walk about 200 yards from my window. It was one of the ones used for logging trees and looked in wonderful health. This is a land that used to be known as the “Land of a […]

Post Easter update

Dear All,
Sorry for the lack of news recently; I’ve been on the road speaking and have got really behind with many things.
I’m still raising support to go to Laos, and it seems I’ve still got a lot more support to raise.
The news from Laos is that they are trying to work out visas and the […]

Update on departure date for Laos

Just a quick update on my departure date for Laos; looks like I’ll still be heading there sometime towards the end of May/June 2007. Would be fun to help my mum show a few sheep and pigs at the Suffolk show at the end of May but I’ll have to see how things go.
So far […]

Project Update -Laos

Just a quick note to say that the latest news from the project is that we have now expanded the project into 3 more villages, so we are now working in 6 villages. One of them is extremely remote involving crossing 3 rivers and crossing a mountain, in a very leach infested area.
It has been […]