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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

As the UK and the West is starting to warm up, we are starting to get rain and with it a short period of cooler, fresher weather.  I mean short as we get about half an hour after the rain until it dries up!  Its also a time for us when humidity is unbearable at Read Full Article

I know Cambodia surprises me every day, but I did laugh out loud at this one.  A lady on the local bus (same size as single-deckers back home) was sitting at the window with a crash helmet on! What did she know that everyone else didn’t? Two of our children live in a house near Read Full Article

The Khmer people especially those who live in poverty are so good at reusing materials.  I recently saw an older lady who cannot walk possibly caused by a stroke.  Her family made a metal frame and put wheels on the bottom, got a red plastic patio chair and suspended it in the middle of the Read Full Article