After 3 days heavy travelling I’m feeling to lazy to repeat the story twice so will direct you to the full write up on www.travel-and-life-in-thailand.co.uk.

So after taking part in the local Tambon ceremony it was off to our favourite haunt, Huay Tung Tao. This week we had a full quota of children, with general behaviour having been very good alround. The only one who was not there was Jack as he is at home at the moment. I would [...]

This weekend there was a Tambon ceremony at our local Temple, Wat Mae Salab. In keeping with our policy of doing our best to follow local culture we visited the Wat on Saturday and I gave all of the children a small amount of money to donate, along with a larger donation from myself. Kneeling [...]

Now that we are an officially registered charity it means that we can try to get our collection boxes in the bigger retail outlets, around and about Chiang Mai and the Northern Thai Provinces. In preperation for this I spent yesterday producing stickers, and this afternoon, (Saturday), five of the children helped out with putting [...]

As much as I am happy that we are now a fully registerred charity here in Chiang Mai, I had maybe been a little complacent about the additional workload that I am now doing my best to keep up with. No worries, I have always been at my best when kept busy. Just as well! [...]

The Stratton ABC Foundation; registered charity no: ชม.310 (chor.mor.310). Newly registered, on 16-06-10, our Foundations work started in ernest on November 1st 2009 with the arrival of the first placement at our Childrens Home in Sarapee, Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. What we do; At present we have placements available for up to 14 children. Our [...]

After receiving some very good news at the end of last week, I wanted to make this weekends trip out a little different and a little special for all the children. Funding the days trip from my own pocket I kept our destination and planned activity secret from the kids, who hounded me constantly thru [...]

Another week goes by and life goes on with the children making use of their free time, playing chess and making dens in the garden. We have a good group here who play well together most of the time. Chess is still very popular and we might have to think about more boards and maybe [...]

Today, (friday 25th), was an earlier start than normal so that Gu and Tai could get to Sarapee Train Station before 7.30am.  Their school was invloved with a Parade through Sarapee,that appeared to be promoting healthy living and warning of the dangers of drugs.  It does appear that, just like most countries these days, Thailand [...]

You may have read last week, about Tai having given the girls a hard time about their cooking. We made sure that this week was Tais turn. Having not really shown an interest in cooking before , the expected result was for the girls to be able to get their own back. So on Saturday [...]