Dear All,
It has been an odd week, no I mean a really odd week. Some weeks here are merely a little odd, but some like this past one really push the boundaries a little. It all started last Sunday with some pork I’d bought in the market the previous day. My cleaning lady didn’t come […]
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 […]
Dear All,
Another week passes by here, and the work steadily continues on in Bun Tai district, in Phongsaly Province Lao-PDR. Anything that normally takes a month to do anywhere else in the world seems to take at least a year here, it is an insanely frustrating place to work but somehow changes are happening in […]
Dear All,
I’m tired, really horribly tired at the moment, and finding life up here pretty tough at the moment in lots of ways. I struggle with all the obviuous things, singleness is like a sore that doesn’t heal for me and it is quite an isolated life up here. But I’m learning a lot about […]