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 […]
Dear All,
I finally moved into my new sty, I mean house, this past week as I got annoyed with living in my old house. My new house is a couple of rooms at the end of our new offices, but despite having no running water, is a vast improvement over my last hovel. The last […]
Dear All,
Life up here really is rather hectic at the moment, but I adore working up here and adore the work so much. I’m very happy indeed being up here, working with the hill tribes. We have a disease outbreak in one of our villages, it is nasty disease called Leptospirosis (sometimes known as Weils […]
Dear All,
I’m dearly loving being up-country again, for some reason this province of Phongsaly is becoming a special affection of myself, the least amongst the least, yet astoundingly beautiful, it is a place I feel deeply fortunate to be placed in and I’m loving working up here and I’m not sure I can ever remember […]
Dear All,
I’ve just got back in Bun Tai, after the Christmas break; it is very nice indeed to be back here. Christmas proved rather too memorable for my ordinary liking, with so much family illness, so being back in Laos felt rather like a break. I was delayed getting back up here, from Vientiane, as […]