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It’s has been the King’s Birthday w/e here, and a public holiday.We have been off on a retreat to the Redemptorist Center in Pattaya, on the gulf coast.While there we visited the Orphanage started by one of the Fathers.Sad, but lovely.Isn’t this the cutest pair? They had a 4 day old baby in the baby…

Winter has arrived here in Thailand, with a vengeance. On Sunday last week it turned cold (in the 70’s – just), but continued to get colder every day. By Thursday it was 72/22 on the balcony when I took my breakfast. Yesterday A.M. I went for my w/e swim, and yelped when I dived in…

Today is the first Sunday of Advent. We are going away for the next 2 w/e’s so we have decided to put up the tree. Seems strange in all this heat. Have turned the a/c down to zero.

I got a job! I’m working over at BookNet Canada, helping manage bibliographic data. It’s quite interesting – I think I really enjoy working with information. So, that’s going well and I’ve been there just about a month this week! I’m really writing because I have some great news. I have a new baby cousin-nephew…

Yesterday was the Ploenchit Fair here in Bangkok. It is run by the British Club, with all of the various sub-groups of this Embassy spin-off having stalls and actvities etc., and also many other organizations in BKK. All the proceeds go to Charity. It is very like a British Village Fair, with lots of actvities,…

This is some of the Canada Club Thailand Girls at the Melbourne cup.Champers and all.

My apartment is full of people. They are all engaged in one task or another, One is taking all the curtains down to get them cleaned, another is cleaning the outside of the windows, another fixing the air conditioner in the bedroom and my maid is washing the window screens. I guess this is ‘spring…

These are some of the girls from one of the clubs that Trish has joined (he he).

What have I been doing since I last posted? Oh my Gosh, too much. Actually having a great time here in the land of Smiles. The Bed Push was fun, seven kilometers didn’t seem far at all when you are part of a 50 bed parade all dressed up and very carnival like. The police…

We were planning to go to Hanoi last w/e, but the evening before Trish remembered that we needed Visas (so much for me the frequent flyer eh?)Anyway, in the end we went to Krabi instead – a beach resort on the Andaman coast.Had a fabulous weekend, though as you can see from the pic, it…