We’ve been swimming almost daily recently. Fairly scummy but pleasant nevertheless.

christian snoozing in bluey, believe it or not three people slept in that van.

rather top notch view just before i went white water rafting

once more the old gang doing a spot of fishing

Hail all,

Hi Luu!

WEll, in Krabi, on the beach at the moemtn. Thinking it was a pleasent litle beach with bamboo huts. we wew not a little astonished to roll up in the pick up and find manya posh shop along the paved sea front (looking like a boulavade in france) and a macd’s as well!!!!

Found a nice place to stay though and will explore today.

Still the first is it Jul??? Not long to go yet. We don’t terust you on your own in singapore so one or both of us will come to meret you at da airport, and either stay in singapore or head back into malaysia for a couple of days.

Liv – whats all this lose talk about sleevless t-shiorts???? Lokks like a vest to me!! Ansd whats with all this manic exercise? Geoff should start to do some as those three musculs Jul talked about are turning a little podgy!!!

Good photos there dod. Glad to hear you allowed mama the 50p to go into the fete!!!!
Have fun swimming and hope the good weather lasts. I am looking forward to NZ now.
Thanks for the mail about the air baloon mama!! We would have stayed longer in phanang, but were running out of time!!
We are going to go to Kota Bharu and the national park in malaysia, but will see what time we have left after that. There si a notice up on the wall for feb just gone for volunteers for sailing to malaysia!! That would have been great fun, but the ship sailed a few months ago.

Well, thats all form me for now. Am of to buy a couple of presentable things to wear in this posh hotel in bali!!!! All my top are thredbear now, but i’m ok for bottoims as i got dsome shorts and a skirt made in Hoi An.

Love to all
Tanya

hail. i picked up bonfire of the vanities from some random place in south island, what seems like years ago. but i left it by mistake. most annoying as it looked good. did the the pat on the back feel as good as a crisp fiver? that is the question!

pics, top: don’t recall recomending this one, hone heke again, bluey the van on the left. mid: some dolphins suprisingly, in milford sound. bottom: massive water fall in milford sound.

I had one of those moments recently, buying something in the local hardware shop. The poor sap was obviously a trainee, and he charged me £5 too little. Being Mr Honest, I pointed this out, and rewarded myself with a slap on the back.
If you’re reading Catch 22, it won’t be long before you borrow A Man In Full from Liv. Try warming up on Bonfire of the Vanities by the same author – Tom Wolfe. We’ve got two copies already, I think, somewhere!

hone heke again, bluey the van on the left.

some dolphins suprisingly, in milford sound

massive water fall in milford sound.

aha! i just picked up catch-22 in a book shop and started reading, afetr maybe half an hour of sidesplitting amusement i resufaced. very funny book, i should have listned to it when you got it for me out of the library, dod.
at the momant we are staying in a hostel called the chriterian (uncle fred in the springtime!) which is very art deco. apart from this place i haven’t seen much. it is a bit rediculous the hype about this being the art deco capital of the world. but this hostel looks like something from jeeves and wooster, at the momant annika is playing the piano in the background, god is in his heavan and alls right with the world.
yester day i went to the air newzealand fiends to check if they had cancelled my flights and to pay them the fifty squid. first the minion claimed that i didn’t exist then stated that they had nothing to do with air singapore, evan though the phone biscuit had asured me thet the air singapore flight would be cancelled. “you should ring them” said the minion “or they will cancell your entire tiket”. she glanced at a callender. “you should ring them …er yesterday?! whaaahg? i thought, not a little pertubed.but the minion was some sort of angel in disguise she was on the case before i could mutter a worried “oh dear” and had air singapore on the phone, and lo she sorted it in two minutes. “that will be ten dollors” she said. i fumbled with my wallet trying to cover my suprise. what price the crisp $130 dollors i had to part with, i thought well she didn’t mention it so i didn’t iether. momants later i was ten dollers lighter and the wide open spaces lay before me.

julio

I saw Jim Carey on the J Ross show. Funny but also toe curling, in about equal measure. He was asked why he lived alone; but it’s not really surprising, since he would send a companion round the bend in no time at all.

Hi there Lucy!

Pictures won’t upload tonight …