I’ve spent a large part of the past week editing some of my earlier posts. While reading one, I noticed it had promised an update about Wilai’s business selling Thai market flowers. That sent me scurrying to this site’s Category Index to search for the last relevant post indexed there....
Early this year my Thai partner Wonderful Wi set up shop in our village garden selling som tum (spicy papaya salad). A Thai style thatch roof kitchen was built, and the village’s newest snack service rolled out. It wasn’t by any means an innovative business idea, but there was a hungry market out there willing...
A rustle in a tree near to our garden gate alerted me to something unusual going on. My new eyeglasses zoomed in to show a woman high up in the tree and activity at ground level. Four women were collecting fruit from the tree. What the fruit was I didn’t...
A Love of Fashion, Flowers and Hard Work Wonderful Wi’s passion for fashion, albeit, blatantly missing in the above photograph is only really surpassed by her love of flowers. At long last, my village girl has decided to turn her hobby into a small fledgeling business. A business she hopes...
Everybody loves monkeys don’t they. My first memory of a monkey was from the 1960’s TV series Daktari starring Marshall Thompson who played the role of Dr Marsh Tracy, a veterinarian working at a Study Center for Animal Behaviour in Africa. Two of Dr Tracy’s closest pals were a cross-eyed lion...
After the success of my recent photo post Four Beddings, One Wedding and a Funeral, I thought I’d try the same formula again by adding another post to my Thailand At Work series. I’m sure many readers of the numerous blogs about Thailand have never visited the country itself and...
When travelling around the countryside in Udon Thani Province I am often amazed at how much some of the scenery resembles the country fields back home in England. You may think I’m kidding but I am deadly serious about that. Take away the rice fields, palm trees, bamboo stalks, exotic...
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