Here’s what we do by day:
gardening

And by night:
bicyling in heaven

Yet another post rejected by your FS mail, Jul. Here it is:

“Dear Julio,

I am glad that you have found some work; but take it easy and have plenty of sleep. Could you send us the negatives of your photos; they will be less expensive to send. Persavere with the fishing; it sounds like a lot of good free food to me! (Caught not court)

While searching the rich list of the Sunday Times I told Daddy that I had better buy a lottery ticket but he reminded me that most of them made their money by pure hard work. It is true.

Daddy is cutting one of the yew trees; the lower branches so far while waiting for the long ladder to arrive. I am cutting them to size for burning in the stove.

We had quite a lot of rain so it will be easier to dig and plant. Most of the trees are in leaf and blossom everywhere. It is a magical time of the year.

Grosses bises Mama

I am going in the garden to see if I can catch any slugs.

Actually, it’s deigned, not dained!
Jul’s ‘man’ story was concluded in paragraph 3 of his last post. Apparently around my age … heart attack, presumably …
Last time I heard, Jul’s flight was 8 May. He isn’t malaria protected, so maybe he should forget Laos: “Risk all areas”
Also, Northern Thailand: “Risk in the areas that border Cambodia, Laos, and Burma. Travelers to the border areas should take either doxycycline or Malaroneô as their antimalarial drug because of mefloquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in the area.”
Why not go to Laos now, and meet in Bangkok on your way back down? That would be roughly three weeks away, wouldn’t it?
You’ll be glad to hear, now you’re leaving, Vietnam has been declared the first SARS infected country that is now SARS free!!!
Does texting work yet?

PS. Dod, geoff seems somhow to have inherited the good old goat stench!!! Most amusing i find it!!!!!

Tara
Tanya

Haul fester, what price the timing of arival in thailand?????

Well, as you have not dained to reply blast you, we shall continue as planned. We are heading out of cambodia tomorow, and then down to ko Samet, one of the islands of the coast, south east of bangkok. WE were planning to chill there ’till you arrived, but if you are planning a prolonged stay, we will get on with the itinarary. The plan was to meet you, head up to khao yai national park, spot a few other things of interest on the way. WE were thinking of then going into laos as it seemes a shame to miss it, and coming out at the top of thailand, heading to chiang mai for a cookery course perchance, and then working our way south, atking in all the local sights on the way to bangkok, whic should take about a week up to laos border, week in laos and perhaps one to two weeks going down to bangkok. If you wanted to do this with us you wouls probable do fine by sticking to the original dates (7th was it??? wot time???) or if you wanted to stay and do a bit more fish slautering with the bloodthirsty caroline, you could meet us on our way back down, baring in mind that this would be three weeks later than originally planned. WE then plan to head south along the beachy coast!!!! wel, we wil mail wen we either get to chanthaburi ( the capital of that area) or ko samet (the classy island. That will e tomorrow of the day after. Get back soonish so we know what time we have to play with squirtlet. Mayhaps get dod to look into things, he might have a good idea. Have you a good list of non touristy things to do??

By the way, what happened to that bloke???

Gotta go, getting the bus in the morn, and we got up to se the sunset over ankor wat this morn at 5am. Needless to say it was well and truly clouded over. more about that later.

Love to all,
Tanya

Red snapper, perchance? The most sought after and expensive fish in Seychelles!