Dear All,
I have a problem, actually I have quite a few, but I have a specific problem with hooligan poultry who insist on getting through my cat flap and attacking the 800kg of rice (aparently a super tasty kind according to my Akha tribe friends) that I logically enough have in my living room. Not […]
Dear All,
Another week passes slowly up here and my stomach bug is finally starting to properly move on. It has been a wearying experience, but hopefully I’ll be fully back to strength before too long.
The weather here is either intensely hot and humid, or incredibly wet (as in river falling from sky sort of wet) […]
Dear All,
A week ago I was sweating it out with a stomach bug and intense pervasive windless heat really making being in Bun Tai somewhat ghastly. And I had 800kg of rice in my living room. And I still do as apparently the government here locally thinks it might be the wrong kind of rice […]
Dear All,
Yes indeed I do have 800kg of seed rice in my living room and jolly good it looks too. Indeed who needs a coffee table when you can have a pile of creaking pink leaking rice sacks that have transformed my house into even more of a barn than it already was. I just […]
Dear All,
I’m safely back up in Bun Tai, in Phongsaly province, after a really great break in Vientiane and some meetings in Thailand. I dearly love being back up here, but I really can’t say why I love it so much.
The journey up had a slightly strange moment, when I lost control of my truck […]