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Archive for September, 2005

Funtastic Fives birthday today ! Woke up 6.20 and he opened the first presents. I find birthdays very emotional.. do all mums have that? don’t know.Gotta run.. bring my birthday boy to Kindergarten with cake, sweets etc, then return home to sick boy 9, cook lunch, prepare party and make sure there is […]

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Yesterday I had to drive to school 2 times in the afternoon. At 1 pm for a meeting and then drove back home after 3 pm only to drive to school again at 4pm to pick up my son and his friend from football. WOW.. I tell you.. rainy season not only brings water.. […]

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Watching the river swell…..
 People filling sandbags preparing for the flood…..

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16.45A government pickup truck just drove through our ‘mubahn’ . With a mega phone they announced that there will be a flood. I just didn’t understand everything they said.. something about 90 cm. My husband is going to get sand bags and I have to put my car in a dry place.. where????? Anyway… this […]

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A government pickup truck just drove through our ‘mubahn’ (settlement) . With a mega-phone they announced that there will be a flood. I just didn’t understand everything they said.. something about 90 cm. My friend said they had to let water out at a dam… why don’t they always let some water out instead of […]

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5 years ago I was heavily pregnant with my son. The pregnancy went quite well. I did have a really hard time with all the smells… I remember once I had to go and throw up because my car smelt so bad ! (no one else in the family thought so)It was hard getting pregnancy […]

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Mother Theresa quote

The fruit of faith is love,The fruit of love is service,The fruit of service is peace. - Mother Teresa -

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 Once again I wish I had learnt to read Thai fluently. I have never read in Bangkok Post about ANYONE testing flood waters in Thailand.  I wonder how much the  Thai New-papers wrote  about  the floods in  Chiang Mai, or the floods in Pai. If people got sick and and had diarrhoea the water MUST […]

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A few years ago, when I lived in Switzerland I went to the ‘COOP’. I talked English with my daughter who was about 2 years ago. As I walked past an elderly Swiss man, from Basel ( not Bern!) I overhead him saying ‘di schiess usländer was macha sie da.. ‘ (These stupid (shitty) […]

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It really is rainy season. It rains everyday !! The other day there was a big storm, with thunder and lightning right over our ‘mubahn’ ( village) .So, I quickly shut down the computer and turned off all the power plugs in the office.  We usually have power cuts and I’m always worried my computer […]

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