Hi All, a few hectic and interesting days have passed, some good and one bad, so I'll start with that. Unfortunately last night when Lindy and I were walking back from Siem Reap she was mugged, but it all happened so quickly that I didn't see or hear anything until I heard her shouting and saw her lying flat out on the road. We were walking along a stretch of unlit road when a moto came along without lights and snatched her bag from her shoulder and in the proc...

Hi, we have just had a tremendous thunder storm, fortunately I could see it coming and cycled backe very quickly to avoid it. Whenever there is going to be one you see the clouds gathering and the sky turns black, but you know you are safe until the winds blow and then all hell let's lose. We have had impressive lightning and thunder overhead. Lightning kills many people in this country - particularly out in the villages. I saw two impressive sights cycling t...

Hi Everyone - 8am, Have had a busy but intresting week, working, meeting new people and visiting local sights. It has been extremely hot every day with only a few heavy rain storms. One day the rains came early in the day but I managed to cycle to school before they came, others were not so lucky. The 15 day festival of Pchum Benh has begun, but we have not managed yet to get up at 4am to see the happenings at the pagodas - I may leave that until Meryl is her...

Hi, a lazy Sat, after a showery morning it has cleared to a sunny afternoon so most of us have been and used Prince d'Angkor swimming pool, it is a large salt one set amongst beautiful trees. Thjre loungers are relaxing and it is 50m in length so a few times up and down you feel as though you#ve had a good work out. I had to go to the place this morning to have next week's work printed off my memory stick, they hadn't got any change so trust me to go back and p...

Thurs 6pm A strange day at school because the children are still registering for state school and not appearing, but others are telling us that their time to attend has been changed for am to pm and vice versa, so we don't know our class sizes or who will be in each one. We have been giving out free uniforms to children, but they will wear the same one every day of the week and for the whole school year. One lady was in this morning wanting us to take her daug...