Life for now

Another weekend and another week gone. How time flies when you are having fun.

The end of May has been busy with work and ministry. We have had some wonderful experiences talking to the Burmese, Nepalese and Indian tailors and market workers. They are so grateful for time we spend with them talking about the bible etc. What a contrast to the UK, US, France, in fact everywhere we have lived before. THIS is what it is all about. Everything else, is secondary. What a wonderful privilege we have to be here.

We are very much enjoying the use of our new pool. Nick and I swim most mornings before we go out on the ministry or start work. Today we have a rainy day but everyone is swimming anyway. Cool! The girls make good use of it too in the afternoons. Mr Pong, our landlord, has just fixed the lights too, so now we can swim at night.

My sweet and gorgeous little nephew is doing much better. He is still in hospital and his poor parents are exhausted but he gets stronger and stronger every day. He is slowly learning to feed properly and we are praying that he will be able to go home very soon.

Next week is our first visa run. Our plan is to drive down to Malaysia. It's a 9 hour drive from here but we will just do it in a day and then stay in Ko Lanta for a couple of days on our way back. It will be nice to see some more of Southern Thailand and to have a change of scene for a week.

We are having a party tonight, yeah! Our lovely friends, Mayumi and Yomiko, are leaving to go back to Japan so we have invited some friends over to say goodbye. Hopefully it will stop raining so some can swim. I love our international brotherhood here. Tonight we will have friends from Japan, Australia, Thailand, The UK (of course!) and the good ole US of A!

I'm Back!

Sorry haven't written for a while.
Well it's been a very eventful time since my last blog post. I am now an Aunt to a gorgeous boy, Brychan Wyn. He has had a tough start in life and is still in hospital, but we are hoping he will be able to go home soon. He was born a couple of weeks early and had some big problems with his little kidneys, heart, lungs and platelet levels among other things. The time he was in intensive care was probably one of the worst weeks of my life. My heart was breaking for what my sister and her husband were going through. He is much stronger now though and as soon as he starts feeding properly we are hoping he will be able to go home. I don't think there have ever been so many prayers said around the world for one little baby.

We have also moved to a better house. At least we thought it was better until someone came in yesterday and stole Nick's phone and £100+ from my purse! We were in the house at the time too. Scary. Anyway it was a wake up call as we had been rather lax about locking doors etc. Not any more!
The pool is gorgeous though and right in front of the house. It is only shared with three other houses, and we are actually the only ones who use it anyway.
We now have AC in the living area and kitchen too which makes a huge difference to concentrating on our work and enjoying watching a film in the evenings.

We had a wonderful 20th anniversary on the 5th. Nick and I went out for breakfast after getting some lovely presents from the girls. We then found a super beach with absolutely no one on it. The day was finished off perfectly with a meal at Da Vinci's with cocktails. The money mum gave us as a gift enabled us to buy loads of gorgeous plants for our new house including some amazing orchids.

We are looking forward to a trip down to Malaysia next week for our visa run. It will be nice to see some more of Thailand and get away from Phuket for a change of scene. We haven't seen much since we came here and are definitely ready for a trip. Two other places we are planning on visiting are Vietnam and Nepal. Not sure which will come first.