Dear All,
I survived my agriculture conference, not everyone did, but I’m a survivor and I can survive a room full of unusually un-smelly agriculture experts (:I learnt how to at British boarding school; it has proven to be one of the more useful lessons that I learnt there).
But I had to face up to one […]
Dear All,
Yesterday I got into Vientiane after a couple of days on the road driving down from Bun Tai as I’m heading to an agriculture conference in Chiang Mai in Thailand on Sunday. I’m really tired, but fine, and it was a good safe drive.
For the first part of the journey I had a couple […]
Dear All,
I’ve now lived up country a year, up in the very far north of Laos close to the Chinese border; about 450 miles north of Vientiane. I’m still alive and my cats are still talking to me.
Living up country has been good for me, I still look as handsome as ever (think Errol Flynn […]
Dear All,
I’m back safely in Bun Tai after 7 hectic days in Vientiane and it is lovely to be back up here. I love the air and peace that you have up here, and the unceasing technical challenge to really improve the livelihoods of the rural poor up here is constantly stimulating.
My back is still […]