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May has been very hot in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand temperatures were the hottest they have been for 170 years.  Some days we reached 41 degrees but with the humidity on top it felt more like 47.   The air was so hot we had to keep the windows in day care closed.  Cooling off involved Read Full Article

We have now had Chinese New Year, lots of dragons, and red lanterns around Phnom Penh to celebrate the year of the Dragon.   A lot of you will have renewed your yearly gym membership after Christmas and will have been given an incentive for joining, well here I noticed a new gym notice saying you Read Full Article

Happy New Year or in Khmer (Bon Choul Chnam Tami) we are now celebrating Chinese New Year in February and then we will celebrate Khmer New Year in April. We have been enjoying a few days of cooler weather lately which is nice and welcomed before we start the climb to hot season when temperatures Read Full Article

Christmas in Cambodia is different from back home, the displays in the shopping malls can leave you a little bewildered.  An example? I haven’t a clue what Santa is doing with his head in the upside-down tree and why there is only 3 christmas balls on the small tree below!!! We took our staff for Read Full Article

November started quietly at day care.  One child left to go and live in the country with his grandma, and we started another two children. One child is 6 months old.  His mother owed money and ran away leaving the boy and his 3 year-old sister with their grandparents.  The grandparents are sick, and the Read Full Article

Well October started off eventful especially for Mark as both Adam and I ended up in two different hospitals.  Adam had dengue fever and I was in for tests as my doctor was worried about me, I turned out to have a migraine and vertigo. Mark was running around trying to visit both of us.  Read Full Article

Thursday 7th September, Sokheng and I headed for Phnom Penh airport and the start of our trip to the UK and Germany.  Two staff members came with me and held my hands all the way to the airport, one had never seen an airport, the other had been there once before.    We had a cup Read Full Article

Word of warning – Clackers are back and on their way to the UK.  They are all you can hear as everyone seems to have them.  Do you remember them from the 1970’s?  Many bruised and broken wrists as I remember. The staff have been very creative with hair styles recently.  The twin girls have Read Full Article

We are back to work two weeks now and it seems a long time from we were in the UK.  We enjoyed our time with our son Craig, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren in Scotland, then catching up in Belfast with our other son Adam (who happened to be there for a few days before he headed Read Full Article

So, the excitement of Mark and I going to NI has rubbed off on the staff.  Only one staff member has ever been on an aeroplane so of course I get the questions, can you open the windows, how does the aeroplane stay up in the air?  Some questions I can answer, some I cannot. Read Full Article