When asked where they wanted to go this weekend , the children asked to go back to the waterfall at Doi Suthep.
 Not happy about the risk of more injury from broken glass, we decided to try the Huay Kaow Waterfall a little further downstream.
This waterfall is more developed for visitors with a car park and [...]

Thanks to an anonymous donation to our cycle track fund we decided to purchase the first load of surfacing materials.
 A second look at the possible costs of concreting, and the fact that we are still in rented accomadation, led us to believe that we should look at cheaper, less permanent, options, and we settled on [...]

This Sunday happened to be Valentines Day, so the day out included not only Huay Tung Tao,
 but also visits to both Kamtieng  Garden  Market and the Flower Market close to Chiang Mais China Town at the banks of the River Ping.
We ate at home this week and then enjoyed a couple of hours of the peaceful [...]

Monday saw the first Birthday party for one of the children from Nan. It is strange how Thai people don’t appear to take so much note of their birthday or, indeed, birth year. There was a little confusion at first with May claiming to be 12 years old. Checking her birth certificate I confirmed that she [...]

As reported last week, the basic layout of the bike road around the house is now finished, after much hard work by the children.
It is rideable now but with a very rough shingle surface.
We would like very much to complete the road with either concrete or possibly sand and stonedust mix.
We estimate the full cost [...]

Thanks to a herculian effort by all the children yesterday , it looks like our original estimate of 5 weekends was way over the top.
Once they got started and the track started to take shape , the children didn’t want to stop.
All the younger children worked hard gathering up loose stones and leveling the track.
Tai [...]

Belated thanks to our first child sponsors, Azadeh and Heather from the Faa Gamma fund raising team.
Azadeh has started sponsoring Nu and Heather is sponsoring Jack.
I have to apologise for continued technical problems with the sponsor facility in the shop.
Also an explaination of our child sponsor programme……..
Its still early days, but an early estimate of [...]

At long last we got a bit of a start on our planned work project, making a bike track that will go all the way around the house.
The tracks borders will be marked with lengths of bamboo set in the ground.
The first job was to make out the start of the track and remove all [...]

Another Sunday, another fun day out. The childrens choice was Huay Tung Taow.
 This time we took two of the bicycles with us to extend the range of the days activities.
As usual the kids had lots of fun playing in the water.
Water snail collecting seemed to be the popular past-time for the day.
In between times the [...]

Our very first placement, Jack, is at heart, a very special boy, who likes nothing better than making others laugh and be happy.
Unfortunately Jack has many problems, that have become more and more apparent as time has passed since he arrived.
Having known Jack previously, whilst helping out at his previous placement, I had been a [...]