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March has seen an influx of new children into day-care.  By the end of March we will have started 7 new children which is wonderful – that takes us up to 21, 19 full-time and 2 part-time.  Our latest 2 are cousins who live nearby, we start day-care at 8am, but they were so keen Read Full Article

February has been a cool month for us with temperature down to the low 20’s and a lot of cloud and even some rain! February was a very frustrating month for us at day-care.  We had a lovely Valentine’s day with red roses and the next day chaos.  After the children had their sleep, one Read Full Article

Start of a new year, may it be a happy and blessed one for everyone.  We are coming up to Chinese New Year (one of the three celebrated in Cambodia).   For our first of the New Year celebrations, Mark and I and blew some of our pension and went for a few days with a Read Full Article

Glad tidings to you all this Christmas time. I am sitting here listening to a Northern Ireland Talk Radio Show and it is reminding me of what a fallen world we live in, it seems that there is no good news to report anywhere, the whole world is in darkness. Well, here’s the thing,  we Read Full Article

I have a new name! – Malis (Ma-Liz).  Sokheng’s mother cannot say Liz so she calls me Malis (which means white flower or Jasmine as we know it).  I feel honoured to be named after such a beautiful flower.   Sokheng arrived at our house recently with a present of Malis for me which now takes Read Full Article

Start of September we went to see the little disabled community with food aid packs and some gifts for the children.  The families had just about run out of rice and were so glad to see us arrive.  The children carefully looked through the bags and selected what they liked.  The girls loved the girlie Read Full Article

Hi folks, Another very different month.  Mark and I have been working flat out and haven’t been home since January 2020, so we really needed to take a little break.  There are no tourists here at the moment and the hotels are really struggling, room prices including breakfast are extremely cheap, so we took a Read Full Article

Halfway through the year again, where does the time go?  June was a little busier thanks to all of Phnom Penh being reassigned as a Yellow Zone (freedom of movement with restrictions) and curfews have been lifted.  Restaurants are now allowed to open for sit-in with much lower numbers of tables and people. Mark and Read Full Article

May was a quiet month; we all went into lock-down for approximately 3 weeks.  Covid soared during May to 24,000 people  considering the whole of 2020 we had just over 300 cases! Over here if you have Covid, you are taken to locations such as schools or hospitals to be quarantined. The officials decided to Read Full Article

Last month we reported that our son Adam had been admitted to the Royal Phnom Penh with what we thought was a kidney infection. It turned out that he had three abscesses in his liver.  He was operated on and a drain put into the biggest abscess.  The surgeon managed to drain the second one Read Full Article