This weeks trip out with Ally was more of a work day as I was visiting many establishments around Chiang Mai trying to find Sponsors and collection box locations, for The Stratton ABC Foundation, in and around Chiang Mai. Still there was some early interest factor to the trip as we headed into the city [...]

This time of year is always a little bit tense for me. The coming of the rains also bring out all the bugs, including the notorius Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti mosquito, which bites all day long. This mosquito can be the carrier of dengue fever, a flu like disease which kills hundreds every year. There is [...]

On Wednesday 21st I went for a long overdue meeting with Khruu Khem of Huay Sai School. Huay Sai is one of the schools on www.thaischoolsenglish.org, a project run in association with our Foundation, with a view to promoting English language learning in the local community. Having been very busy ensuring registration for the Foundation [...]

Now we have completed the registration process for our Foundation project, The Stratton ABC Foundation, it is time for me to apply for my new work permit as Foundation Director. Today I went into Chiang Mai to prepare the nesseccary for this. First of it was to the Fuji photoshop on Moon muang Rd, close [...]

Part of whats kept me so busy, and with little time to get to the internet shop, is an exciting new project that I have become involved with, after consultation with Huay Sai school English Teacher, Khruu Khemtong Punyoyai. In an attempt to support, encourage and promote English language learning and use, within the surrounding [...]

Could we be about to form our own ,Thai version ,Von Trapp family? I doubt it, but music will definitely feature high on our agenda after a very successful, impromptu session last weekend. I have played the flute for many years now, mostly for my own meditation. On Sunday I woke up in the mood [...]

With New Years day done with we decided on a Saturday trip to Huay Tung Tao. Unfortunately we had had a few behavourial issues that meant that our original 3 children remained at home with House Mother Wasana. I’m happy to report that the clear message that the trips out are a reward for good [...]

Late start for me this morning(17th). Well 7.10am instead of 6.45. I was woken from a very deep sleep by one of the children knocking on my door. I wouldn’t have thought much of it, if I had had a particularly hard day yesterday, but that wasn’t the case. Being an everyday early riser my [...]

A very productive day today(monday 14th). With Wasana looking after the kids I set to work on computer and printer finalising the first selection of greetings cards that will appear in our online shop soon. In between doing that and trying to ignore the sound of tree cutting in the house behind us I also [...]

It has always saddened me that whilst as children we are told that to lie is bad and deceit is dispicable,we grow up to discover that much of society is built and run on lies and deceit. As the inquiry into the Iraq war goes on I read that Tony Blair says that ‘even without [...]